And she grew to be a girl, my daughter, my Mary. Sing a song, Mary. Sing for grandma and granda. Sing.
The ties that bind can never be broken. For Sal, they hang like a noose around her neck, just loose enough to keep a small but potent flame alive inside.
A passionate story of love and hate.
The world première of a visceral new play by one of Ireland’ greatest playwrights and poets, Frank McGuinness.
Cast
Company
Writer Frank McGuinness
Director Lia Williams
Designer Colin Richmond
Lighting Designer Charlie Lucas
Sound & Composition Giles Perring
Recorded Voices Esme Herbert & Melanie Pappenheim
Costume Supervisor Jacquie Davies
Reviews
The Match Box
★★★★
“McGuinness has conceived a compelling, tragic heroine”
The Guardian
The Match Box
★★★★★
“This is the kind of rare performance that keeps on giving, and it’s not one to be missed”
The Matchbox
The Match Box
★★★★
“so brutally powerful that it knocks the breath from your body”
The Times
The Match Box
★★★★
"It’s rare to find storytelling as sharply and simply involving as this, or to encounter quite such meaty ideas about the place of morality in secular times, or to behold a performance so intricate, measured and powerful."
The Telegraph