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Rose Plays Julie ****

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. Rose Plays Julie (15A) opens with Rose (Ann Skelly), a veterinarian student living in Dublin who discovers that she was adopted at birth. Keen to establish a relationship with her birth mother, Ellen (Orla Brady), Rose travels to London, where Ellen is an actor. When Ellen rejects Rose’s overtures, Rose becomes even more determined to insert herself into Ellen’s life.