Cosy, in collaboration with Cork Midsummer Festival 2019 and funded by an Arts Council
Ireland Theatre Project Award. Cosy is a dark comedic tour-de-force written for six female
performers ranging across three generations. Set in a dilapidated house, the estranged family members gather – for the matriarch Rose wants to die. (Secretly) failed businesswoman Camille and her precociously intelligent teenage daughter, Isabella, arrive to find the house falling down around their ears and Ed, the elder sister/house-keeper, isolated and old before her time. Then the much-traveled, many times divorced Gloria arrives, but the black sheep of the family is transformed. And who is the strange woman taking refuge in the garden shed?
The play explores family dynamics, issues of inheritance and self-ownership, and how to ‘keep the faith’ in the midst of economic chaos.
