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06 Sept 2025

Tour-de-force: 'Fair City’s' Sorcha Furlong brings her new one-woman drama 'Tender Mercies' to Longford's Backstage Theatre

Inspired by a headline in a local newspaper Sorcha Furlong captivatingly portrays Mary Fortune

Sorcha Furlong

Inspired by a headline in a local newspaper Sorcha Furlong captivatingly portrays Mary Fortune

Inspired by a headline in a local newspaper, Fair City’s Sorcha Furlong, in a tour-de-force performance, captivatingly portrays Mary Fortune as she recounts the highs and lows, loves, disappointments and demons of her time with us in an incisive fine-tuned study of a woman on a downward spiral.

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Furlong vividly brings to life a whole cast of characters from Mary’s past – her parents, ex-husband, hairdressing clients, neighbours, friends and beloved twin brother Barry.

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Blackly comic and poignant, you’ll be thinking of Mary long after the lights go down.

Tickets for Tender Mercies at Backstage Theatre on Thursday May 15 at 8pm are available on 0433347888 or backstage.ie

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