Synopsis
Dublin Carol
Published by Nick Hern Books
Christmas Eve
Undertaker John Plunkett is sharing memories of funerals over the years and dispensing advice to his young assistant
But the painful arrival of his estranged grown-up daughter prompts him to face up to his own disastrous past in order to create some kind of truce with the future
REVIEWS
'A theatrical spellbinder' ~ Daily Telegraph
'McPherson's short play is excellent: tough on love and the causes of love; profoundly sympathetic and damning about the denizens of the drunk tank' ~ Time Out