Salad Day

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging: Single interior setting (conservatory of a nursing home)

Amateur rights performance fee: £45 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Irish Shorts
First Staged:
The Fairer Sex play-readings, The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2009

Salad Day

By Deirdre Kinahan
Published in volume Irish Shorts

A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.

Deirdre Kinahan's Salad Day was first performed as a rehearsed reading at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2009.

It was later developed and expanded into a full-length play, Halcyon Days, which was premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2012.

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging:Single interior setting (conservatory of a nursing home)

Amateur rights performance fee: £45 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Irish Shorts

Also by Deirdre Kinahan:

Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts
Spinning
Moment
Bogboy
Halcyon Days
Raging: Outrage
Rathmines Road
The Unmanageable Sisters
An Old Song, Half Forgotten
Raging: Three Plays/Seven Years of Warfare in Ireland
Raging: Embargo
Raging: Wild Sky
Crossings
Wild Notes
The Saviour
Bé Carna
Hue & Cry

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