Acting greats shine in an aperitif of a play that leaves you hungry
Sorcha Cusack, Anna Healy, Ruth McCabe and Deirdre Monaghan mine plenty of comedy from Caryl Churchill’s thought-prompting but short play Escaped Alone
Ruth McCabe, Sorcha Cusack, Deirdre Monaghan and Anna Healy in Escaped Alone by Caryl Churchill. Photo: Ros Kavanagh
Caryl Churchill’s 2016 play gets a welcome Irish premiere from Hatch Theatre Company and Cork’s Everyman. Like most of Churchill’s plays, you have a tough time likening it to peer works, or locating it in any particular tradition. She seems to reinvent the artform every time she lifts her pen.
Escaped Alone is set in a garden where Sally, Vi and Lena, three like-minded retired woman, are shooting the breeze on patio chairs. The conversation has the informal shorthand quality of people who know each other well. Non sequiturs tumble out giving the chat a disjointed, Beckettian feel. They are joined by Mrs Jarrett, a little different to them, a little other-worldly, scruffier in her dress and witchy in her demeanour.
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