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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
Oisín Kearney
A taut psychological thriller for two by Irish playwright Oisín Kearney that offers a complex interrogation of parenting, power and what it means to care.
Winner! 2025 Solas Nua New Voices Award, Dublin Fringe
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?
As power shifts and facades drop it becomes clear Garrick and Hegarty desperately need each other.
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.
Good With Faces first premiered in Dublin at the Dublin Fringe Festival in Project Arts Dublin on 6 September 2025. Directed and produced by Oisín Kearney and Gina Donnelly, the production featured Vicky Allen and Patrick McBrearty.
It later opened at Summerhall Arts at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 6 August 2026. Directed again by Kearney, the production featured Clodagh Mooney Duggan and Patrick McBrearty.
GARRICKHEGARTY
A small, tidy room. Present day.
“Gripping!” – The Irish Times
“Taut!” – playwright Enda Walsh
“A mesmerizing power struggle... will have you sitting uncomfortably! Every comment sparks suspicion in Oisín Kearney’s bold play about a meeting between a mother and a social worker.” – The Guardian
“One of Ireland’s most exciting theatrical talents.” – Nancy Harris
“Never didactic, Kearney raises the pressures of parenting and care work in a considered examination of blurred professional and personal lives impacted by a harsh economic climate... Using a web of motifs, he gives the most mundane images – a glass of milk, a few nail clippings – an unnerving meaning. A bold and engrossing hour of shifting sands with an awful lot to say about blame, shame and many shades of abuse.” – The Guardian
Good With Faces – Trailer, Edinburgh Fringe
Theatre and Dance from Northern Ireland at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 2026
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.
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