To be produced in October 2008: Eclipsed
The Story
Framed by a present-day prologue and epilogue, the two-act work is set mainly in 1963 in a convent laundry at St. Paul's Home for Penitent Women in Killmacha, Ireland. This is the story of Brigitt, Cathy, Nellie-Nora, Mandy, all pregnant and unwed Irish mothers who worked as 'penitents' in church-run laundries. Supervised by nuns who regarded these women as mindless vessels of evil, the women were treated as virtual slaves and their infants were forcibly put up for adoption.

Location: to be confirmed 
Author: Patricia Burke Brogan