Cailíní

Produced by ABLAZE

‘You don’t know what he’s like. And quite frankly, you’re lucky for it.’

The Mahon sisters return to the family home at the behest of their sister Úna, with news that their Father is sick.

Over the course of the evening, truths that the sisters would rather withhold from each other begin to spill out as they share childhood memories and clearly struggle to interact as adults.

And with their Father still yet to make an appearance, Katherine and Úna battle it out to answer the question that they have wanted to know the answer to since their mother died: whose kitchen is this?

Cailíní, first conceptualised in the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Dublin, draws on rich Irish Theatre heritage to give a contemporary take on the intrinsic link between Irish femininity and domesticity.

This piece is for sisters, for families, for displaced individuals, for Irish people, non-Irish people, and anyone who knows, or has known what it feels like to be tested by those you love.

Suitable for: 15+

Directed by: Beth Strahan

Written by: Íde Simpson & Beth Strahan

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