'The audience will know all the references': Nancy Harris on her West Cork-set play

Currently working on the latest series of The Dry, Nancy Harris mined a lot of Cork knowledge for her play at the Everyman 

The Beacon, by Nancy Harris, is at the Everyman in Cork. Picture: Lee Malone

BAFTA-nominated playwright and screenwriter Nancy Harris, whose play The Beacon is coming to the Everyman, says that she loves a good mystery story.

Fascinated by the West Cork podcast which explored the story of the murdered French woman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier, near Schull, London-based Harris, who spent a lot of time in Baltimore growing up, says she has always been taken by stories of local people living under a cloud of suspicion.