The Night Season

a new play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz

When you were born Esther kept bursting into tears saying she was scared she'd have to take you back. The yard was a paradise. Summertime. She'd sing to you. I'd roll her a cigarette and we'd all just lie there on a blanket. And I'd watch the smoke curling up from my hand and I thought fuck this is heaven.

Late at night, shoeless, in the rain, an actor playing Yeats in a film shows up at his Sligo digs. Three feisty sisters lie dreaming upstairs, but in the morning, down they come, burning to meet the new lodger. While their father's intent on an early glass of whiskey and a date with the local barmaid, the youngest daughter shows the actor to his bedroom...

A funny, modern, intoxicated tale of love, loss and families.

The Night Season finished on: 17 November 2004