Marginalised take centre stage

AS part of its residency at the Everyman, Fishamble theatre company is staging Forgotten and Silent, two acclaimed plays written and performed by Pat Kinevane.

Directed by Jim Culleton, both plays deal with vulnerable people and are rooted in Kinevane’s experience and keenly felt observations.

Forgotten gives a voice to the elderly. Written nine years ago, it was inspired by Kinevane’s visit to an elderly aunt who was dying. “She was in a beautiful nursing home in Limerick, but I remember looking around and seeing rows upon rows of beds with elderly ladies in them. They were done-up and were full of dignity, but I remembering thinking that some of them probably didn’t have visitors. They were forgotten.”