Blood in the Alley

Woman & Scarecrow

BY MARINA CARR

Directed by GEOFF GOULD

PERFORMERS Joan Sheehy
Noelle Brown
Geraldine Plunkett
Mark O’Regan

Woman and Scarecrow is a dreamy, if sometimes bitter play about death and the perspective that it can throw upon the life which it is bringing to a close.

On her deathbed a woman with eight children and a remorseful cheating husband surveys her life and imagines what else could have been. Full of bitter humour and brutal honesty this is a fierce, passionate and beautiful lament probing one woman’s attitudes to death and the life that came before it.

‘Anyone can get through the first half. You start a life. You finish it. You don’t bail out at the crossroads because you don’t like the scenery.’