On a House Like a Fire

Sometimes in a gesture, or in a turn of phrase, sometimes in the scent of hairspray, or glimpsed in an old photograph, a person reappears.

​In this evocative and moving show, writer-performer Michelle Read collaborates with composer Brian Keegan, to recreate the experience of remembering her mother, Margaret, through fragments and glimpses of her life.

​‘Keegan’s atmospheric music unspools throughout… full of affection and warmth’ Irish Independent

Margaret lived with Alzheimers and loved to walk by the coast. Michelle uses the things she has left of her mum, including photographs and significant objects, to gradually reveal Margaret’s story and to share the universal experience of remembering someone.

​‘utterly absorbing…’

​‘a beautiful one-woman drama… done with great feeling, affection and atmosphere’ Irish Mail on Sunday (Show of the week)

​Age guidance: 13+

Duration: 50 minutes