Underneath

by Pat Kinevane

It's mad that ye're here with me. In Cobh. I always felt like I was born on the brink of the world. That I was near death, always. And here I am! Hereafter. This place of slower motion. But whipping energy. Back Home.A woman lies dead in her grave in the Tumbledown cemetery, Cobh, County Cork. It's a recent relocation; only two weeks before she was living in a flat near Croke Park in Dublin, beneath two East European prostitutes who she had begun to be friendly with.From her last resting place, she tells the story of her her happy childhood and the mother who loved Cleopatra; being struck by lightning and then missing school for a year; her night shifts in hotels washing and mending laundry; up to her ultimate and untimely demise in a north Dublin flat; all via a series of unlikely encounters and heartbreaking betrayals.Written in Pat Kinevane's signature style, Underneath is a blackly comic, rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life.Underneath was published to coincide with the play's first production by Fishamble theatre company in December 2014.

52 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 6, 2015

Reviews

[Danielle D · Rating 4 out of 5]

The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because reading the play will never be as incredible as seeing it live. I saw the performance of 'Underneath' at the Soho Theatre and had to buy the script because I never wanted the story to leave me.
Tragic, funny and like nothing I've seen/read before.