About
1980s Ireland. Five sisters, bound together under their mother's watchful eye, spend their lives longing for escape, power and the one local eligible bachelor.
Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, BÁN is a reworking of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Carys D. Coburn's play was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.
Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, BÁN is a reworking of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Carys D. Coburn's play was nominated for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.
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Reviews
"'A brilliant piece of writing… seduces completely… impossible to resist…. BÁN towers above most of its contemporaries… not to be missed'"
The Arts Review
"'An impressively brave piece of work'"
Irish Times
"'What makes this play compelling is its dogged pursuit of a kind of truth about late 20th-century Irish society'"
Irish Independent
Extended Details
- SeriesNHB Modern Plays