Description: Raccoon is a poignant, lyrical tale of small town Irish life.
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Centring on Saoirse, a waitress in a small café, it explores the great contemporary Irish themes of children laid aside but held in the heart as a lifelong yearning, of parents named and unnamed, lost and found.
Saoirse doesn't know who she is or where she comes from, but by a bizarre chance encounter in her café she is offered the opportunity to reconstruct her past and her future.
‘He comes out with this, soft-like, 'Why don't you wear your hair in a chignon'?
You should have heard the way he pronounced it, I'm telling you - 'chignon'. Who taught it to him, I wondered.
'Are you a beautician'? I says.’
Julie Sharkey’s heart-warming portrayal of a young woman has delighted a diverse range of audiences. It comes now to Bewleys Café Theatre for four weeks only as a beautifully written and finely honed piece of story-telling theatre.
This production by the excellent Cork-based Theatre Company, Meridian has been quietly wowing audiences in a series of site-specific performances nationwide and is now set to storm the capital. Bewleys Café Theatre is delighted to present Raccoon to Dublin audiences and Ireland’s critics for the first time. This is a tell-your-friends and bring-your-Mum kind of play. Come and be charmed!
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