Thin Places, a contemporary drama set in a village in Northern Ireland, explores complex themes of exile and the poignant, often difficult, return to one's roots. Eugene Gillan comes back from the trading floors of the City of London with a guilty secret. He tries to hide in a nostalgic view of life where he grew up, where his first love still lives but finds that all has changed. Ultimately he and his fellow villagers are compelled to face harsh truths exposed by fault lines of memory, identity and time.
Drawing inspiration from Irish folklore, Thin Places takes its title from the Celtic idea of mystical locales where borders between worlds are blurred. This idea extends to memory where just a note of music will tear the veil between past and present.
“There's an old Celtic saying, ‘Heaven and Earth are only three feet apart, but in thin places that distance is even shorter.”’
Moira. Act II Sc. 5.