Please Patricia

Please Patricia by Seamus Collins is a piece of new writing with endless amounts rain, confusion and conversation. This Irish farce was selected as one of the WINNERS for the BBC Writers Room 10 Competition and shortlisted for the International Student Play script Competition. Written, produced and performed by students, it tells the story of three estranged siblings Margaret, Robert and Patricia. The siblings are reunited in their decaying family home as their father lies dying. However, motivated more by money than love the siblings clash in a minefield of metaphors, madness and cruelty. In this play Margaret loves Margaret, Robert hates Margaret and Patricia loves everyone. While the dialogue deals with the mundane and repetitive, it is alive with wit and abound with tension. Though located in the suffocating locale of a Northern Irish family home, this play deals with universal themes of greed and family and asks what, if anything, does your family owe you? After a successful run of Please Patricia at the Brian Friel Theatre in Belfast, this play comes to the Edinburgh Fringe. Amongst the plotting and scheming, this play is essentially about the price of being a member of a family, and whether or not that price is worth paying.