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Episode Notes
Morning Coffee by Dermot Bolger directed by Eithne Hand, was shortlisted for best Radio drama script at this year's Zebbie awards, hosted by the Writers Guild of Ireland.
A stranger from the past drives into the yard of on an elderly couple. Is this seemingly benign intrusion the action of a man seeking to make atonement and bring justice, or wreak havoc on the lives of the couple?"
Morning Coffee is a play that is either about a man refusing to accept any status of victimhood or else about a man so traumatised by childhood events that he cannot admit them into his present life, even if they have shaped his life. It is about a perpetrator who has slowly come to understand the implications of his actions and now feels a need to be shamed and published in old age. It is about an elderly couple who, after decades of loneliness, have found each other and built a small republic of love where they are determined that whatever secrets they share will go with them to the grave.
Starring Donncha Crowley, Tatiana Ouliankina, Helen Roche and Eamon Morrissey
Sound supervision was by Damian Chennell.
Series Producer of Drama on One is Kevin Reynolds
Directed by Eithne Hand
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