Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
A sunny afternoon. Sally, Vi and Lena sit in a yard drinking tea, on the other side of the fence stands Mrs Jarrett. “Don’t look now but there’s someone watching us”
When Mrs Jarrett steps off the street and into Sally’s yard, her presence brings the outside world in and horrific events of the past, unspoken, emerge to the fore.
Intimate and vast, domestic and wild, Churchill’s vision presents a world hurtling towards its own destruction. Escaped Alone viciously satirises contemporary capitalist culture while it celebrates the (often unheard) voices of aging women.
In a career spanning over six decades, playwright Caryl Churchill continues to reinvent the genre with each new creation.
With an all-star veteran cast of the best in Irish female actors including, Sorcha Cusack (whose numerous television credits include playing the title role in Jane Eyre, Casualty, Coronation Street and Father Brown); Anna Healy (Winner of Best Supporting Actress at the Irish Times Theatre Awards 2023) also known for her roles in ITV’s favourite soap, Emmerdale Farm; BBC’s hit TV series Showtrial (season 2) and RTE’s Fergus’s Wedding); Ruth McCabe (known for starring as Kay Curley in Stephen Frears’ The Snapper; Christy Brown’s paramour Mary in My Left Foot; and Wyn Ryan, sister of Dr. Sam Ryan, in three seasons of Silent Witness); and Deirdre Monaghan (known for screen roles in Game of Thrones (2011), Custer’s Last Stand Up (2001) and My Norwegian Holiday (2023)).
“Escaped Alone is magnificent. It has all the qualities that mark Caryl Churchill as the greatest living playwright – it’s funny, it’s complicated, and it’s sinister.” – The Huffington Post
