Summary Of The Play 'Bold Girls' By Rona Munro
“Bold Girls”
“Bold Girls” by Rona Munro is a dramatic play set in Ireland during “The Troubles”. The play centres around the lives of three women; Nora, Cassie and Marie and the hard times they come to face. Though the women’s husband’s have been killed or jailed, the women’s life must continue however their lives are suddenly unsettled when a young disturbing teenage girl appears, Deirdre, acting as a catalyst and disrupting the settled lives of these characters as well as unveiling well hidden truths.
Within this drama, the character Deirdre is on a search for the truth about her father and along the way she actually reveals the truths of the other central characters. Deirdre opens the first act with a monologue, describing the troubles …show more content…
She’s strangely quiet as she sits in the room with Cassie and Nora, only replying simply to their questions. The first hint of truth surfaces here when Deirdre speaks of Cassie. “I’ve seen you though,” but when Nora and Cassie ask where Deirdre had seen her, she just shrugs, building tension and suspense within the …show more content…
The knife is first introduced on page 24-24 where Deirdre shares her longing for a knife in her monologue. “I thought I’d like that. A wee bit of hard truth you can hold in your hand and point where you liked,” though the monologue seems quite sadistic and violent, it suggests Deirdre’s hunger for the truth, which the knife now plays the role as the truth.
Nora’s dream is for the perfect home. She hides behind the truth that her husband is abusive and that the relationship with her daughter Cassie is broken and disconnected, so to hide this trust she obsesses with making her home perfect, re-decorating often, replacing furniture and so on even just to have it destroyed again. Deirdre uses the knife to slash and destroy ‘fifteen yards of shiny, peach polyester’, hacking away at it until she’s breathless which represents the cosy domestic life from which Deirdre herself us excluded and revealing that Nora’s life is just a
“Bold Girls” by Rona Munro is a dramatic play set in Ireland during “The Troubles”. The play centres around the lives of three women; Nora, Cassie and Marie and the hard times they come to face. Though the women’s husband’s have been killed or jailed, the women’s life must continue however their lives are suddenly unsettled when a young disturbing teenage girl appears, Deirdre, acting as a catalyst and disrupting the settled lives of these characters as well as unveiling well hidden truths.
Within this drama, the character Deirdre is on a search for the truth about her father and along the way she actually reveals the truths of the other central characters. Deirdre opens the first act with a monologue, describing the troubles …show more content…
She’s strangely quiet as she sits in the room with Cassie and Nora, only replying simply to their questions. The first hint of truth surfaces here when Deirdre speaks of Cassie. “I’ve seen you though,” but when Nora and Cassie ask where Deirdre had seen her, she just shrugs, building tension and suspense within the …show more content…
The knife is first introduced on page 24-24 where Deirdre shares her longing for a knife in her monologue. “I thought I’d like that. A wee bit of hard truth you can hold in your hand and point where you liked,” though the monologue seems quite sadistic and violent, it suggests Deirdre’s hunger for the truth, which the knife now plays the role as the truth.
Nora’s dream is for the perfect home. She hides behind the truth that her husband is abusive and that the relationship with her daughter Cassie is broken and disconnected, so to hide this trust she obsesses with making her home perfect, re-decorating often, replacing furniture and so on even just to have it destroyed again. Deirdre uses the knife to slash and destroy ‘fifteen yards of shiny, peach polyester’, hacking away at it until she’s breathless which represents the cosy domestic life from which Deirdre herself us excluded and revealing that Nora’s life is just a