SAFE HOUSE

How did Grace end up here? Why doesn't she have a real home? What happened? In fragmentary set pieces, we gradually learn more and more about Grace's life. A childhood marked by poverty, alcoholic adults and failed family celebrations, an isolated youth in the country, a desperate escape to the city, a return to the country and the attempt to numb the trauma she experienced:

Grace tries to come to terms with her own past, to find meaning in what she has experienced by either saying goodbye to it or accepting it as an irrevocable part of herself.



"SAFE HOUSE" is the first collaboration between composer Anna Mullarkey and author and director Enda Walsh. It is a solo evening, a song cycle with images and film sequences in which past and present, memories and fantasy merge, in which time jumps back and forth, day becomes night and one season changes into another.


ENDA WALSH is a playwright, director and screenwriter. His works include the plays "Disco Pigs", "Misterman", the musical "Lazarus" with David Bowie, and the screenplays for the films "Hunger" and "Small Things Like These". Thomas Ostermeier directed "Disco Pigs" at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg in 1998 and took over the production at the Schaubühne in 2000. The German-language premiere of "Misterman" took place at the Schaubühne in 2000.



90 minutes

(In English and Irish with German subtitles)