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Donal Fleet: A Confessional

IN a unique play on my emotions, writer Sean Gregson claims in the programme notes to be waiting on the M.E.N. review to see how much better his script has been made by the contributions of director Frances Piper and the actors in his intense drama.

I don’t know if this counts as more or less than the 72 per cent improvement he’s calculated so far but this is gripping stuff, a play about memory, about deep dark secrets and lies, and also about the very act of writing.

Lloyd Peters plays Donal, an older man desperate to exorcise his past, with James French as the menacing Lad and Szilvi Naray-Davey as the woman whose relationship with the pair of them is as gratifying but harmful as their relationship with the alcohol that fuels this fascinating play’s revelations.