Performed for the very first time in 1989 at the Peacock Theatre, in Dublin, the play is translated into Italian and performed for the
first time in Italy at the Bonci Theatre, in Cesena, on the 25th October,
2003.
Christine, settled in Northern Ireland, is the drama of a country involved in a civil war, through an intimate narration. The main
character is a lonely woman who doesn't like her loneliness, her solitude, her
forced isolation, caused by an unfavourable destiny and determined by historical and social conditions. She is a very common woman sitting on a chair
in her room while remembering her past: she lost her husband killed by members
of the IRA. She needs to be listened, she wants her story to be heard. The
play overthrows spatial and temporal boundaries choosing a plot mixed by
past, present and future. The choice of a narration strictly linked to everyday-life, the monologue, calls attention to the intimacy of the protagonist, and lets all true emotions come out.
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