The Sluagh

Ireland, 1839. The Night of the Big Wind.As one of the most violent storms in living memory tears across the country, the Doyle family barricades themselves inside their remote cottage. But Brigid fears something worse than the storm is travelling on the wind.The Sluagh are abroad: the restless dead, driven through the night in search of souls.Then someone knocks at the western window.It is Liam, Niamh's missing son.He knows things only Liam could know. He remembers his family. He begs to be let inside.But Brigid gives them one warning: "That's his voice. I never said it was himself."As the dead begin calling to each of them, buried guilt and old grief are dragged into the light. And before morning comes, the family must confront a more terrifying possibility.Perhaps the Sluagh are not trying to get in.Perhaps they already have. This is a one act theatre script for six characters, three male and three female. There are additional voices.