Bailegangaire

Synopsis

A major play from a major Irish playwright Bailegangaire is as complex and haunting as one of Yeats' later poems .

A senile bedridden old woman rehearses over and over again an epic tale of a village laughing match .

Meanwhile her two granddaughters struggle to release themselves from the prison of remembered unhappiness.

Here is a potent allegory - of the need to exorcise the past and its myths if one is to be happy in the future.' (Sunday Telegraph)