Rebecca Bartlett is a prizewinning playwright with contributions to both BBC and RTE Drama schedules. Her works include: Curragh Wrens, The Day Daniel O Donnell Got Married, Remembering Arezzo, Seals at Tawin, and Shalom Belfast. Born in Belfast and a graduate of QUB she moved to Galway in 1978 where she worked as an actress with Druid Theatre Company. She founded Galway Youth Theatre in 1991 and was its Artistic Director for almost five years before moving to Dublin. She still enjoys the demands of writing quality work for young audiences. Rebecca is currently editing a novel and working to finish a new stage play. She is a member of Sapphire Writers Group.
To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong. William Wordsworth. And so Bella stopped crying; Stopped waking in the night Stopped being the person she had been for all of her thirty-seven years years. Bella became someone else. The softness inside her […]