Life Before You

Performed at The Alma Tavern Theatre

Director Roisin McCay-Hines

Set Designer Jasmine Thompson

Costume Designer Abby Manard

A new play written by Eva Harris

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At eighteen, Eimear has the world at her feet. A place at Oxford, friends with great hair and ambition and a trip to Costa Rica by private jet to ‘save the environment’. If only her Mum would see her for what she will become, and if only she would call her Emma.

At eighteen, Grainne was scrubbing butcher’s trays every night after school to save up for a flight to England. She wanted to be able to give her unborn daughter more, to break out of the reality of a brutal upbringing in rural Ireland. If only Eimear would understand the sacrifices she made; if only she would for once say thank you.

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Life Before You explores the limits of caring and what it means to love unconditionally. Can a mother’s love transcend rigid class systems, or will the different life expectations of the two women push one of them to the brink of no return?