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These three plays announce the arrival of a very special playwriting talent. The longest of the three, atmospheric and elliptical, is St Petersburg. It comprises three scenes involving three characters, and old man, his middle-aged daughter, and a ten-year-old boy. In Limbo, a monologue, a 17-year-old girl tells us the story of her relationship with an older man and what it led to. Catherine Medbh is a bittersweet and hesitant duologue in bar between a youngish man and woman who are ex-lovers.
Though the sparseness of the dialogue can be poetic, in Declan Feenan's writing it is what's going on under the words that carries the emotional charge. His characters talk, often quite volubly, but all we hear is the unbridgeable gap between them - and the evasions and concealments with which they live their lives.
This volume is published alongside the premiere of St Petersburg at The Bush Theatre, London, in 2008. Limbo was staged on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007.
