Bold Girls

19th & 20th February 2010

Written by Rona Munro, Directed by Carolyn Duffin

"My Daddy said I was special, my Daddy never lied to me. So it must have been me that lied to him."

"Bold Girls" is a drama of everyday life in 1990's Belfast - burning buses, roadblocks and gunfire are but offstage events in this stirring play about the lives of women, whose men have been killed or imprisoned for their political activities, but where bread must still be bought between explosions.

Set in Marie"s kitchen and a seedy night club, ordinary life goes on, but the appearance of a disturbing young girl threatens Marie"s carefully structured widowhood.

Pretences are shattered as, finally, truths about their men-folk are painfully exposed.

In spite of its chilling theme there are many humorous and heart-warming moments - a play about people not politics.

"Bold Girls" made its global premiere at Cumbernauld Theatre back in 1991.   In the same year, it went on to win the Evening Standard and the Susan Smith Blackburn Award "Most Promising Playwright".  Since then, it has toured across the globe.  Now, in 2010, we're bring it back home to Cumbernauld!