Deirdre Kinahan’s play explores how culpable Máire is for acts of cruelty, when she was brutalised as a young woman in a church-run institution
Opening in a lighter vein, we first see the widowed Máire sitting in bed, smoking and pinching herself on her 67th birthday. She has spent the night with a male acquaintance, Martin, and the experience was as unexpected as it was pleasurable. With Martin remaining offstage throughout, the other unseen presence is that of Jesus, whom Máire addresses directly, her face radiant.
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