For one night only, Dalkey Players present their RTE All Ireland 2023 Winning Play, ‘By the Bog of Cats’ by Marina Carr with kind permission of The Agency.

Hester Swayne, a woman abandoned once and discarded later threatens a whole community as she awaits her mother’s return to the Bog of Cats.

Forgiveness, vengeance and disparate forces figure in the tangled history embodied in her own powerful drama as it makes its way through heartbreak and, occasionally, hilarity, and the secrets of her tangled history are revealed.

Suitable for age 16+

Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes including interval