The Saviour

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging: Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook, 68 pages ISBN: 9781788503884Publication Date:
17 Jun 2021
£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)
First Staged:
Cork Midsummer Festival, 2021

The Saviour

By Deirdre Kinahan

Ebook £9.99£7.99

There's a new man in Máire's life. But some people aren't happy.

It's the morning of her sixty-seventh birthday, and Máire is sitting up in bed, enjoying a cigarette. There's a man downstairs. She is blooming.

Charting the extraordinary shift in social, political and religious life in Ireland over the past thirty years, The Saviour asks questions about responsibility, about how we respond to trauma, and about the tricky question of forgiveness.

Deirdre Kinahan's blistering play for two actors was first presented online as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2021 by Landmark Productions, using the auditorium of The Everyman, Cork, as a backdrop.

Press Quotes

'[A] blazing, terminally damaging confrontation [between mother and son]... Kinahan's shafts of truth are unforgettably precise'

Irish Times

'An intense and unflinching experience... brilliant lines and gallows humour aplenty from Kinahan's assured pen'

Irish Examiner

'Gripping and very, very powerful'

RTÉ Arena

'A powerful drama that touches on strong issues of family and religion, lightened with some nice touches of humour'

British Theatre Guide

Cast: 1f 1m

Staging:Minimal requirements

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Ebook,68 pages ISBN: 9781788503884Publication Date:
17 Jun 2021
£9.99 £7.99You save £2.00 (20%)

Also by Deirdre Kinahan:

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

Go to author page...

Similar Titles
Another Romeo and another Juliet in a strikingly different love story.
A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.
A taut and tender debut play that asks if it's ever too late to start again.
An uplifting, bittersweet drama set in a nursing home, celebrating friendship and the human spirit.
A tender but truthful exploration of love and ageing, asking how we choose to live in the face of soaring...
Fraught, funny, and ferocious, a play that challenges the cultural response to accusations of sexual assault.