Iron

Iron by Rona Munro, Simple Theatre Rona’s Munro play Iron is emotionally honest and socially resonant, it transcends the melodramatic cliches of prison drama to explore the relationship between a mother and daughter and the corrosive nature of the penal system.

The play starts with an awkward encounter: the first visit by 25-year-old Josie to her mother, Fay, who has served 15 years of a life sentence for killing Josie’s father. Josie, a divorced and lonely career woman, wants to rediscover her past. Fay longs to live vicariously through her daughter without confronting the moment of her crime. With iron logic and a great deal of sympathy, Munro shows how these needs are contradictory.

The mother-daughter relationship is at the heart of the play, and Munro shows the two women opening up to each other: the globe-trotting Josie slowly admits to her social unease and dysfunctional relationships, while Fay acknowledges her rackety past and yearning for lost sensory delights such as eating hot chips out of paper. You see a bond forged, but are aware that Josie’s monomaniac zeal will come up against Fay’s immutable sense of guilt.

Translation : Christina Bambou- Pagoureli
Director : Elli Papakonstantinou
Costumes – Scenery : Marie Semet
Music : Dimitris Kamarotos
Lights : Katerina Maragoudaki

Directors Assistant : Violet Louise ( Louisa Kostoula )
Scenography : Thanasis Thalassinos
Costumes : Chara Kokkinou

Cast:

George morogianis
Lambrini Aggelidou
Mania Papadimitriou
Sofia Kalemkeridou