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
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 ...