January 2012
Kabosh presents
Hostel
Written and Directed by Fionnuala Kennedy
I'd heard horror stories of hostels…I thought they’d be one tiny room with a mattress on the floor, where you and your child would sleep behind a dodgy door with druggies coming to kill you in the night
Maria is going places.
She's getting an education, a degree, and she's getting out. Then she gets pregnant - and like that… she's written off.
Placed in sheltered accommodation she discovers a world beyond hooped earrings and pyjamas, through friendship, night-feeds and WKD.
Hostel is warm, funny and thought-provoking. That said this is a nuanced and relevant discussion of issues that, as a society, we all too often prefer to brush under the carpet.
- CULTURE NORTHERN IRELAND
Do you know what he said? 'It's not your home'. I said 'Is it not? Well where the fuck is my home then!
Hostel was one of the highlights of the Belfast Fringe Festival, insightful, funny & poignant and from a world that is so very rarely (if ever) pictured on the stage. Fionnuala Kennedy has skilfully created a piece of theatre that will stand the test of time and has relevance all over the world. Bravo.
- CARRIE ANNE MCCRUDDEN, BELFAST FRINGE FESTIVAL
He views us the same way everyone else does: just cos you live in a hostel – you’re just low-life scum making the rest of the world look bad.
Performances
Grand Opera House, Belfast. Friday 20th and Saturday 21st January 2012. 7.30pm.
Saturday Matinee performance, 3pm.
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The Playhouse, Derry. Thursday 26th January 2012, 8pm.
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Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick. Friday 27th January 2012, 8pm.
Matinee performance 2pm.
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Written and Directed by: Fionnuala Kennedy
Cast:
Julie Maxwell
Caroline Curran
Louise Mathews
For more information contact Lyndsey Jackson: manager@kabosh.net, 02890 243343
