While there’s an earthy realism to designer Rae Smith’s evocation of 19th century Baile Beag, on which the ramshackle classroom of a "hedge school" sprawls open to the elements, Neil Austin’s smouldering lighting design stokes the latent tension from the start."...
now ended in your freedom; of your thirst for knowledge, as you gathered up from the rudimental books–not then very plenty–a few snatches of the elements of the language; of playing the school-master to you, in “setting copies” for your writing– book; of guiding your mind and pen...