Alice Trilogy follows three ages of Alice: 1980, in the afternoon murk of her attic, is Alice losing her grip on reality? 1995, she has summoned a lost love to meet her by the gasworks wall. 2005, at the airport: if the worst has happened, why is it bearable?

Tom Murphy is an award-winning writer whose long career was celebrated by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, with a major retrospective of his work in 2001. His plays include The Drunkard, The House, The Wake, She Stoops To Folly, Famine, Too Late For Logic, and A Whistle in the Dark.