Oisín Kearney
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.
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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 ...