Sister act is a tour de force that crackles with dramatic tension
Cleft is a powerful evocation of family ties and family guilt, and its final image will stay with you long after the curtain call
Cleft
By Fergal McElherron
O’Donoghue Theatre, NUI Galway
On tour
Rating:****
‘We’re a tale, a myth, a fairy story,” middle-aged mother Fea laughs, midway through Fergal McElherron’s strange and haunting debut play Cleft. Fea herself is a haunted character, stalked by the past in the shape of her son, an “unfamiliar” thrust upon her when she is raped by a violent stranger.
Fea lives with her disabled twin sister Caireen (Penny Layden) on ...
