Director: Claire O’Reilly

Writer: Eisa Davis

Producer: Loughlin Deegan

Set Designer: Pai Rathaya

Associate Set Designer: Florentina Burcea

Costume Designer: Laura Fajardo Castro

Lighting Designer: John Gunning

Composer & Sound Designer: Jennifer O’Malley

Cast: Laura McAleenan, Joshua McEneaney, Matthew O’Leary, Ebby O’Toole-Acheampong, Tierra Porter & Michael Teint

1955, Boonville, California.

An orphaned, multi-racial girl grows up in a predominantly white town with its own invented dialect.

Bulrusher's beginnings as an abandoned baby in a river basket and subsequent gift for clairvoyance make her feel like a stranger among the strange. Attempts to navigate her neighbours become increasingly difficult until a mysterious black woman from Alabama arrives in town. Together they unearth the secrets and racial tensions lying just beneath Boonvilles’ surface, and Bulrusher discovers an entirely new sense of self.

Studio Two, The Lir Dublin

10-16 February, 2023.