Laundry to reopen on theatre stage

THE doors of the last Magdalene Laundry to close are to reopen to stage a controversial play during Dublin’s Theatre Festival.

Laundry will feature the stories of women confined to the notorious workhouse on Sean McDermott Street in the north inner city.

Director Louise Lowe said the impact the site had on the locality — from the residents who used it, one man who was born in it, to another who fell in love with a woman there — will also be relived.