The world premiere of the psychological thriller The House Keeper was presented by Rough Magic in the Project Arts Centre, Dublin from 19th April – 12th May 2012.
Written by Irish playwright Morna Regan, author of the award winning Midden, this darkly humorous drama explores the nature of possession, entitlement and inheritance.
A young woman at the end of her tether is faced with homelessness when she loses her job and the bank threatens to repossess her home.
Desperate, she breaks into the house of a wealthy woman, but before long she realises that she has disturbed a hornets nest of unimagined proportions.
The House Keeper was awarded the following:
Nomination: 2012 ITITA Best Actress- Cathy Belton
Nomination: 2012 ITITA Best New Play- Morna Regan
Morna Regan is from Derry City, Northern Ireland. She studied in London, and won a Fulbright Scholarship to the USA where she took a Masters in Theatre at the University of Southern California. As an actor, she has worked at major theatres in Ireland, England and America. As a writer, her short film, The Case of Majella McGinty, won awards at film festivals in Cork, Derry, San Francisco, Cologne and Houston. She was awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, Stewart Parker Radio Play Award, the Jayne Snow Award and the Heidelberg European Author’s Award for her play Midden in 2001. In 2013, The House Keeper won the Best Play Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. Morna was dramaturg for Caroline Byrne’s productions of The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2016, and Katie Roche at the Abbey Theatre in 2017.
