OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Alice Coghlan 

• Author Notes

  Devised in collaboration with Clodagh Reid.

• Setting

  Modern Ireland

• Synopsis

  Ailish McGovern is an unfulfilled Recruitment Consultant. For Ailish life would be perfect if she had a marriage proposal, a glamorous job and most importantly won Irish Tatler Woman of the Year. And so she selects this as the year in which she will transform her life, by applying all of the instructions and mantras of self-help gurus. She goes speed dating, feng shui's her 100% mortgaged apartment and targets the perfect boyfriend, using the New York manual ‘Your soul mate is out there and missing you.’ Next on her hit list is taking over her boss' job using ‘The work secrets only successful people know!’ However it seems that no self-help book that she has studied, teaches that pride comes before a fall.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

• Cast Notes

  The actress playing Ailish played a number of other minor roles.There was also a further walk-on role for the actor playing Dr Jonathan.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  15 January 2007

• Producer

  Produced by Wonderland Productions

• Original Venue

  Bewley's Café Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.