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The Donahue Sisters
C cubed, Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Group: Attica Theatre Company


Dave Clements

In this beautifully acted piece, written by Geraldine Aron, three sisters find themselves in their old playroom of an attic on hearing their father is ill.

What looks like being a parochial meander through their reminiscences is transformed as they re-enact the terrible shared secret of their childhood.

'All for one and one for all - the Donahue sisters stick together' takes on a malignant resonance as we learn of their sibling complicity. The inconsequential to and fro of the opening of the play is thus sent into disturbing relief.


11 August to 24 August.

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