Friday at the Drama Festival: Ballyshannon Drama Society present ‘Margaret’ (SOLD OUT)
Tonight at the Drama Festival we welcome Ballyshannon Drama Society in presenting ‘Margaret’ by Shaun Byrne. Margaret is in her late 80s. At times she is her old self, sharp, lucid, clear; other times confused, frightened and frustrated. She talks to an imagined Denis, to herself, to the audience. The play joins her in the last days of her life in the Ritz Hotel suffering from dementia and explores her troubled relationships: with the Irish, the miners, her children, the public, her male colleagues, and the fallout from The Falklands War; as past demons, guilts and successes return to torment, flatter and deceive her. ‘You have no enemies you say? If you have none, then small is the work that…