Dead Centre

Fourteen years ago in a small Irish town, four women decided to die. Over 40 days they prepared themselves for the end, destroying every trace of their existence.

They left nothing behind. So this is not their story. We’ve just put words in their mouths.

A haunting investigation into why we tell stories in the face of tragedy, LIPPY was widely acknowledged as the most extraordinary piece of theatre to emerge from Ireland in 2013. How do we begin to build a narrative from actions that seem so incomprehensible, when the protagonists are no longer there to tell the tale? What factors, physical, psychological and social can we turn to for illumination? Will real understanding always be beyond our reach when people take their own lives?