Ann Henning Jocelyn certainly had inspiration at her fingertips when she discovered the literary provenance of her house in Connemara. Importing original furniture that her protagonists may have used contributes an additional verisimilitude but if the script is meagre (an ironic shortcoming in a play about writers) and direction dreary, such ‘authentic touches’ are mere window dressing.
Ann Henning Jocelyn certainly had inspiration at her fingertips when she discovered the literary provenance of her house in Connemara. Importing original furniture that her protagonists may have used contributes an additional verisimilitude but if the script is meagre (an ironic shortcoming in a play about writers) and direction dreary, such ‘authentic touches’ are mere window dressing.
Ann Henning Jocelyn certainly had inspiration at her fingertips when she discovered the literary provenance of her house in Connemara. Importing original furniture that her protagonists may have used contributes an additional verisimilitude but if the script is meagre (an ironic shortcoming in a play about writers) and direction dreary, such ‘authentic touches’ are mere window dressing.
