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Salad Day

  • Deirdre Kinahan
  • Short Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 1M, 1F
  • ISBN: 9781848423176

A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Published in volume Irish Shorts

A short play about an elderly couple who, trapped in a nursing home, plot a daring escape into the sunshine.

Deirdre Kinahan's Salad Day was first performed as a rehearsed reading at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2009.

It was later developed and expanded into a full-length play, Halcyon Days, which was premiered at the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2012.

Premiere Production: The Fairer Sex play-readings, The Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2009.
  • Casting: 1M, 1F
  • Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for older performers, Parts for Senior Actors