Woman and Scarecrow

Drama
Full Length

2 men, 2 women: 4 total
Flexible Set

THE STORY: A passionate woman—mother of eight children and wife to a remorseful husband—now facing death, looks back over her life and asks what could have been. Pathos and bitter humor mix in this powerful play from one of Ireland's leading dramatists.

"In language that varies from the poetic to the coarse, Marina Carr paints a portrait of a feisty woman who did not ever have the opportunity to enjoy a fulfilled life but had more fun than her relations could credit…both illuminating and entertaining in circumstances where one might expect unremitting gloom."—British Theatre Guide.info

"…potent, bittersweet, and darkly funny…If the play is largely about the sadness of missed opportunities, it is also marked by moments of great beauty and a robust sense of humour."—Galway Advertiser

"It is an angry, intensely cerebral play. But it is cased in a twister of impassioned emotional storm the like of which has seldom been seen on a stage. And it is wonderful…Carr writes emotional pain like few others, and she surpasses herself in this work."—Irish Independent