Achoimre
On the morning of her 67th birthday, Máire sits up in bed enjoying a cigarette. She has spent the night with a male acquaintance, the offstage Martin, in an experience as unexpected as it was pleasurable, but the mood shifts with the arrival of Máire’s adult son Mel. The play tackles the subject of the emotional and physical abuse of young women in church-run institutions in Ireland over decades, and its impact on one woman for the rest of her life. It charts an extraordinary shift in Ireland’s social, political and religious life, asking questions about responsibility, how we respond to trauma and the tricky question of forgiveness.