Dear Arabella | Patrick Talbot Productions and Rathmore Productions
Daily
Lyric Theatre
55 Ridgeway Street
Belfast
Co. Belfast
BT9 5FB
‘I wrote to her, and poured my heart out to her. She would probably never get it, but it didn’t matter, it didn’t matter at all.’
Three women: Jean, feeling increasingly claustrophobic in caring for her demanding mother Elsie, still trying, after so many years, to try and get to know the soldier husband who returned from the war a very different man Arabella, a widow haunted by dashed expectations and ghosts from the past.
Three tales of love, regret and loss are subtly brought together via a random act of kindness which in turn triggers an encounter on a beach which results in a life-long obsession.
Full of Marie Jones’ signature humour, Dear Arabella marvels at how the most commonplace chance encounters can impact lives in the most meaningful and enduring ways.