A powerful play that weaves together the haunting tales of three lost people from different eras, united by the common setting of the fishing village of Orford in Suffolk, its castle and its mysterious island, Orford Ness.
It is Dublin, 1850 - Hannah is married to Samuel, a wealthy tea, coffee and sugar importer. They are visited by Sarah Worth, a freed American slave. She is accompanied by Alfred, who bought Sarah's freedom for USD300. This work paints a portrait of a period when professions of simple virtue frequently masked more colourful complexities.
Eddie returns home for a peaceful family Christmas for the first time in many years. Neither he nor his parents can forget or forgive themselves for the death of their other son, Richard. Was it an accident or did he intend to kill himself? Hurtful recriminations begin to surface and raise the ghosts of Christmases past.
A new play from an award-winning playwright, published as part of the innovative Abbey Theatre playscript series On the day of her father's funeral, Eva - a young woman - is still haunted by the betrayal she witnessed from her childhood haven - the treehouse in the garden. On the same day another woman, Magda, relives the ghosts of another hiding place and a different betrayal - ghosts from which she still seeks forgiveness. Interweaving lives and secrets Treehouses is a magical tale of refuge, treachery and of love lost and found.