St. Ann’s Warehouse presents
Abbey Theatre

SAFE HOUSE

By Enda Walsh and Anna Mullarkey
with Kate Gilmore


FEB 15–MAR 2, 2025

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“I’ve never made anything like this before. It’s a brand new form for me. A song cycle. A theatre memory play. A cut up film. A gig. It’s not for me to say what it is really. It’s its own thing.” –Enda Walsh

Through song, music, recorded voice, and film, we’re outside looking at Grace, a young woman living alone in the countryside and then we’re inside her fractured thoughts – trying to make some sense of it all. Her past arrives broken and chopped up. The present skips forward and days flip into night, seasons jarring into one another.

Tony award-winning playwright and director Enda Walsh returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse with the US premiere of this new song cycle played out in a handball alley with music by Anna Mullarkey.


★★★★★
“A dazzling achievement”
—THE GUARDIAN

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★★★★
“Exquisite...Stunning...A simple, affecting human story”
—THE IRISH EXAMINER

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★★★★★
“Powerful...Vibrant and eclectic”
—THE FINANCIAL TIMES

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Running time is 90 minutes, no intermission.