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Good With Faces

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 1m

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 1m
  • Duration
    Duration
    60 minutes (1 hour)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner Solas Nua New Voices Award 2025

Details

Summary

Garrick has tidied her living room and put out the good biscuits. But concerned social worker Hegarty’s questions soon turn into an interrogation.

Why has her son got a mysterious bruise?
Who is responsible for the child – the parent or the state?
And can we ever know what happens behind closed doors?

This volatile new play by Oisín Kearney is a taut psychological thriller that offers a complex interrogation of parenting, power and what it means to care.

History

Dublin Fringe, September 6-13 2025

  • Duration 60 minutes (1 hour)

Licensing & Materials



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Authors

Oisín Kearney

Oisín Kearney is from Warrenpoint, Co. Down. He studied Politics at the University of Cambridge. He now lives in Belfast, where he works as a writer and director for stage and screen.

Oisín localised Willy Russell’s script of Educating Rita to 1980s Belfast for the Lyric T ...

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