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Cold Comfort

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

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Description

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Published in volume Singular Male Voices

A powerful monologue about an Irish labourer living in London who returns home to Belfast to have a last, drunken 'conversation' with his recently dead father.

Owen McCafferty's play Cold Comfort was first staged by Prime Cut Productions Theatre Company at the Old Museum Arts Centre in Belfast in May 2005.
REVIEWS:

"An angry requiem soaked in whiskey... a shattering portrait of self-inflicted pain."

 Sunday Times

Premiere Production: Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast, 2005; Theatre 503, London, 2006.

Characters

  • Casting: 1M
  • Casting Attributes: All Male

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