Joining the family members in Dora’s capacious home are Declan’s friends Larry and Paul, gay men who, to the initial chagrin of Lily, have come to nurse the rapidly declining Declan. The revelation of his terminal health condition comes in tandem with his coming out as gay to his teacher sister Helen, businesswoman mother Lily, and his grandmother. Set in County Wexford in the 1990s, the play centres on Declan Breen – a young, gay man in the advanced stages of infection with AIDS – as he arrives at the home of his grandmother, family matriarch Dora Devereux. A new stage adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s Booker Prize-nominated 1999 novel, adapted and directed by David Horan, The Blackwater Lightship was always likely to be a highlight of the 2022 Dublin Theatre Festival.
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