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Porcelain

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3w, 2m, 1any gender (adult)

Margaret Perry

This fascinating new play by Margaret Perry, which premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2018, weaves past and present, myth and fact to explore the parallel stories of two Irish women.

Porcelain

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 2m, 1any gender (adult)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Mystery/Thriller, Fable/Folktale
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

A new play by Margaret Perry, Porcelainweaves past and present, myth and fact to explore the parallel stories of two Irish women.

Tipperary, 1895. Bridget Cleary’s not feeling quite herself. Her husband believes she has been taken by faeries and a changeling left in her place, with devastating consequences.

London, 2017. Hat is a new mother. She has a great life. So why does she want to disappear?

The real-life tragedy of Bridget Cleary provides a harrowing backdrop to a modern-day thriller.

Keywords
Performing Groups
HAT – F, 26, Irish.
BILL – M, Hat’s boyfriend, a Londoner.
SARAH – F, Hat’s cousin, Irish, a little younger than Hat.
SILVERTONGUE – Any gender, any age, a shapeshifter.
BRIDGET – F, 26, Irish. An imagining of Bridget Cleary.
MICHAEL – M, Bridget’s husband, Irish. An imagining of Michael Cleary.
JOY – Hat and Bill’s baby, represented by anything that can be cradled.
  • Setting London and Tipperary, 1895 and now.

Media

ON BREAKING CHARACTER

A Q&A with Porcelain Author Margaret Perry
6 May 2022

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Authors

Margaret Perry

Margaret Perry
Margaret Perry is a playwright from Cork. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from University College Cork, an MA in Dramatic Writing from Central St Martins and she spent a year studying creative writing on a scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley. Her p ...
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