Theatre: A complex tale of friendship, life, art and deception

Margulies’ play moves with the sort of naturalistic ease that never lets the audience get comfortable with the unfolding scenario

Bríd Ní Neachtain and Maeve Fitzgerald in Collected Stories PIc: Ste Murray

Collected Stories

Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin

On tour

Rating:****

In Donald Margulies’ deceptively simple play Collected Stories, a short story writer is confronted by the complexities of creative morality when she finds herself betrayed by her protégée. Ruth Steiner (Bríd Ní Neachtain) is a celebrated author with a reputation for brute emotional honesty both on and off the page. When not writing fiction herself, she works as a creative writing tutor, mentoring young ...