Midden
From: Tuesday, 16th October 2001
To: Saturday, 10 November 2001
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Synopsis
After fifteen years in Philadelphia, Ruth has built up a business successful enough to bring her home again. But instead of the welcome she has longed for, her arrival provokes instant strife in the family, opening old scars and revealing incendiary secrets. Sharp, funny and very moving, Morna Regan's debut play unpicks the tangled threads between past and present, mothers and daughters, exile and home.
Our Review:
23 October 2001
A Fringe First winner at this year's Edinburgh Festival where it was premiered at the Traverse, Morna Regan's debut play Midden now arrives at Hampstead Theatre as a solidly constructed, superbly acted but surprisingly unsurprising play about female family life.
Midden is set in the Derry, Northern Ireland home of Ruth Hegarty's Ma, who shares it with one of her daughters, Aileen (Emma Colohan) and her Altzheimer's-suffering mother Dophie (Barbara Adair). The story revolves around the homecoming of Ma's other daughter, Ruth (the fine, sensitive Michelle Fairley).
Ruth has returned from America, where she's built a successful fashion business with childhood friend Mab (Maggie Hayes), also back home for a visit. But all is not well in her adopted country - Ruth has walked out of a relationship even as she and her partner were in a shop ordering yellow orchids for their impending wedding. Instead of shelling out to the florist, ...
Creative
Morna Regan (Author)
Lynne Parker (Director)
Blaithin Sheerin (Design)
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