The Match Box

Thu 14 Jun to Sat 21 Jul 2012

PLAYHOUSE STUDIO

£10

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

Leanne Best - Sal

Leanne Best

Sal

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