‘I was starting to feel like my head was full of holes.’
Dara is learning to live with the blank spaces – conversations she can’t remember, the occasional hallucination.
When scandal rocks her community and a family friend is arrested, Dara starts asking questions. The answers risk pulling her life apart.
Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s The Briar Patch is a domestic thriller about losing trust in the people closest to you.
Olivier Award-winner Juliet Stevenson (The Doctor, Truly Madly Deeply) stars in this world premiere, directed by Royal Court Artistic Director and Olivier Award nominee David Byrne.
Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, Writer, said: “Having The Briar Patch premiere at the Royal Court is beyond my wildest dreams. To have gone from Open Submissions to a full production feels nothing short of a miracle. I’m endlessly grateful to everyone at the Royal Court for their extraordinary warmth and generosity in all our interactions. I’m especially grateful to David Byrne and Gillian Greer for championing this play and me. Thank you to everyone who has read, supported and helped shape the play along the way. And finally a massive thank you to Prime Cut Productions, who gave me my first professional commission for The Briar Patch. The catalyst for this play was compartmentalisation within a marriage, and although every word has changed more than once, that has remained a constant. At its core I hope The Briar Patch asks whether we can ever possess the full truth without honesty.”
The Briar Patch plays at Jerwood Theatre Downstairs from Friday 14 May – Saturday 26 June 2027.
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
19 June 2027 – Chilled Performance
23 June 2027 – Captioned Performance
25 June 2027 – Captioned Performance
26 June 2027 – Audio Described Performance
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