Girls and Dolls
by Lisa McGee
Photography by Stanley Matchett
November/December 2006
For Emma and Clare, 1980 was the summer they met at the swings, the summer they built a tree house and stole from Dennis O’Donnell’s shop. The summer a young mother and her infant daughter moved into number 14. Now in their thirties, Emma and Clare struggle to come to terms with the chain of devastating events that began that summer, to understand what they did, what they became and how they were judged.
Four stunning performers bring to life a host of characters as they weave together the colourful comedy and terrible tragedy of the summer Emma and Clare will never be allowed to forget.
DIRECTOR
Michael Duke
DRAMATURG
Hanna Slättne
DESIGNER
Terry Loane
LIGHTING DIRECTOR
Patrick McLaughlin
CAST
Bernadette Brown
Mary Jordan
Veronica Leer
Sarah Lyle
