Assumption

Synopsis

Set in rural Ireland and by turns hilarious and poignant, Assumption follows the fortunes of Gabriella, a young single girl who falls pregnant without having committed the requisite sin! The father is an angel she claims. "Of course" says her mother, "Of course he was... just for a moment, a certain little moment aren’t they?" Who will believe her? Certainly not the cynical Father Farrell or the outraged Reverend Mother of the Sisters of Mercy. And who was the beautiful stranger Gabriella kissed at the dance that night?

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Anne Morley-Priestman - 28 May 2011

You could say that Dee Evans’ production – designed by Sara Perks – of Simon Turley’s play Assumption is a case of fitting a softly rounded peg into a distinctly rectangular hole. Evans has directed this play before (in 1996) and casts it this time with only five adult actresses, one of whom also plays a man.

The title can, of course, be taken in more than one way. We’re in an Irish coastal village in the 1990s. It’s a small, very close-knit community with the church its dominating influence. It’s also a community in which people are quick to leap to (sometimes erroneous) conclusions. Assumption is therefore both a theological and social concept.

From the beginning with Gabriella (Emily Woodward) and her friend Anna (Nadia Morgan) practising their Irish dancing and thinking of weddings rather than marriages, the audience is kept at a deliberate distance. Perks and her lighting designer Richard Godin create som...

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