Desolate Heaven: Modern Plays
Ebook
Overview
"She’s goin’ back there. I can tell.
She’s breakin’ her promise.
She’s breakin’ my heart.
She said she never would."
Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each responsible for the care of their respective parents. When the girls meet on a social day for carers, they forge a relationship that takes them on an epic journey through the twisting backroads of small towns, friendship and love.
Desolate Heaven is a story of two young girls burdened with unnatural responsibilities. It is a story of falling in love for the first time and a story about running away. It is a story about growing up too soon and about why love can sometimes be dangerous.
Desolate Heaven is a story about two young girls hoping to find freedom from home in the trappings of love.
Ailís Ní Riain is an award-winning composer, with a growing profile as a writer, having recently won the Tom Erhardt Peggy Ramsay Award.
Theatre 503 is at the cutting edge of new writing and has been described by the Guardian as ‘arguably the most important theatre in Britain today’ and won an Olivier award in 2010 for its production of Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop.
An electric examination of a young relationship, this play offers a keen and uncompromising glimpse into the heartbreaking lives of two young girls.
A dark Irish fairytale . . . There are moments to make your heart sing . . . When the author concentrates on the young women, the writing is fresh and true, and it nibbles and gnaws at the heart.
An intriguing mix of fantasy and reality ... [a] fairytale adventure
A potent coming of age story
- Title: Desolate Heaven
- Author: Ailis Ni Riain
- Series: Modern Plays
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472512864, 9781472509574, 1472509579, 1472512863
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472512864
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T13:44:44Z
Ailís Ní Ríain was born in Cork, Ireland and currently residing in Northern England. A classical composer and writer, she produces work in a wide range of forms including opera, site-responsive, theatre, digital art, public realm, concert music and music-theatre, aiming to challenge, provoke and engage. She won the Tom Erhardt Peggy Ramsay Award with Desolate Heaven.