Escaped Alone

A sunny afternoon. Sally, Vi and Lena sit in a yard drinking tea, on the other side of the fence is Mrs. Jarrett. “Don’t look now but there’s someone watching us.” When Mrs. Jarrett steps off the street and into Sally's yard, her presence brings the outside world in and horrific events of the past, unspoken, emerge to the fore.

Intimate and vast, domestic and wild, Churchill’s vision presents a world hurtling towards its own destruction. Escaped Alone viciously satirises contemporary capitalist culture while it celebrates the (often unheard) voices of aging women.

In a career spanning over six decades, playwright Caryl Churchill continues to reinvent the genre with each new creation. Starring Ruth McCabe and Anna Healy, Escaped Alone receives its Irish premiere at The Everyman for Cork Midsummer Festival. Don’t miss this electric new production directed by Annabelle Comyn for Hatch Theatre Company.