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| AGAINST the WIND A one-woman play by Therese Collins |
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| AGAINST the WIND A one-woman play by Therese Collins |
A one-woman play originally written in 1993 for Pentabus Theatre European Year of the Older Person, when Margaret Jackman created the role of Eileen with director Steve Johnstone. She has also toured the play for New Perspectives Theatre directed by Gavin Stride. The play was in the repertoire of Shoebox Theatre – with Margaret continuing as Eileen – from 1998 to 2005, until we felt that the gap between her age and Eileen's had become too great.
Eileen, recently widowed, discovers the secrets of her late husband’s “bolt hole”. Hemmed in on all sides by people who want to decide her future for her: family, well-wishers and “that Brummie who runs the caravan site next door” to her hill farm, she hides herself away in the shed. The neighbourhood is rife with gossip. What is she doing in there? The village children think she’s a witch. The adults are convinced she’s off her rocker. But, shut away with the late husband George as her constant companion, Eileen is working at something to stun them all. Can she pull it off?
This exuberant comedy, which has been seen by family groups from ages 3 to 80, challenges our ideas of what old people can do. Eileen refuses to be pigeon-holed and is a constant source of surprise as she struggles to do her own thing.
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