Bright Colours Only opened Tuesday 18 March
21 March 2003

Pauline Goldsmith, writer, producer, director and perfomer, Freddie Corcoran, Maura Cranny, Pauline Corcoran, Angela Edghill and David Flannagan.

Bright Colors Only is the play currently @ The Space in The Helix. Written, produced, directed, and played by Pauline Goldsmith, (of Peter Mullan's Magdalene Sisters), it takes place in the virtual living room of Pauline's Belfast childhood. It is a one-woman show about death, part Irish wake, complete with a coffin and a shroud, whiskey, tea, salad sandwiches and biscuits, and your crazy Auntie Annie loose among the guests/mourners with the Hoover. The play is full of death, my death, your death and her death, untimely death, tragic death, sectarian death and injustice in death. The play is also full of life; it is about life, life as it is lived. The play is extraordinary.

As one member of the audience remarked to me, you could have no sense, entering The Space to see this play, of the experience before you. It is unusual, it is clever, it is funny, it is very very poignant and it is powerful and profound. Marie Louise has brought this to us from the Edinburgh Fringe and I urge you all to go and see it, running until Saturday March 29th at 8.15pm, tickets available from The Helix box office. Go along and support our Arts Centre.

Christina Quinlan.

email: christina.quinlan@dcu.ie

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