Director: Claire O’Reilly

Writer: Carys D Coburn

Producer: Craig Flaherty

Set & Costume Designer: Sarah Bacon

Lighting Designer: Lee Curran

Composer & Sound Designer: Jenny O’Malley

Hair & Makeup: Leonard Daly

Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth

Company Manager: Danny Erskine

Production Manager: Andy Keogh

Stage Manager:

Deputy Stage Manager:

Assistant Stage Manager:

Cast:

All of us running around,

thinking we’re so clever,

so good at keeping secrets,

and actually everyone knows everything and just never says.

‘Bán’ (Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Nominee) is a faithful but not close reworking of Lorca’s ‘The House of Bernarda Alba’. Like the sisters at its heart – bound tightly, neither open nor tender, mourning their father, surveilled by their mother. They long for escape, power, the local eligible bachelor. The question isn’t who can have which, it’s can any of them have any?

‘Bán’ isn’t simply mapping Franco’s Spain onto de Valera’s Ireland – Catholic Fascism = Catholic Fascism = duh. It’s speaking to anyone anywhen who denial kept alive, but who then wished it hadn’t. (Not exclusively Irish, but VERY Irish.) It’s raw and raucous; dark but not unduly despairing; loving but not unduly merciful. 

Runtime: ~

Peacock Stage, Abbey Theatre

30 September-8 November, 2025. Dublin.