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Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre's wardrobe
department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running
errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She
must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible
bullying of the show's producer.
But, despite her skill and
growing experience, half of Mairéad remains in her windy, hedge-filled
home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London,
she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does
she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the
wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairéad is caught, running from the
girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she'd hoped to become.
Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.
department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running
errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She
must also do her best to avoid groping hands backstage and the terrible
bullying of the show's producer.
But, despite her skill and
growing experience, half of Mairéad remains in her windy, hedge-filled
home in Ireland, and the life she abandoned there. In noughties London,
she has the potential to be somebody completely new – why, then, does
she feel so stuck? Between the bustling side streets of Soho, and the
wet grass of Leitrim and Donegal, Mairéad is caught, running from the
girl she was but unable to reveal the woman she'd hoped to become.
Told with rare honesty and equal measures of warmth and bite, The Wardrobe Department is a story about reckoning with the past, finding the courage to change the present – and asking what comes next.