At just 42, Muirin feels like her body has turned against her. As endometriosis tightens its grip, she’s left to navigate a healthcare system that doubts her pain, and a shrinking life once full of friends, dancefloors and defiance.

Get the Boat traces a long Irish tradition: sending people abroad for the care the state won’t give them. From a Catholic girlhood, to queer identity, the marriage equality referendum, and Repeal, Muirin watches each of her friends get the boat.

Now it’s her turn to leave – what would it mean for her to stay.

This is a play about claiming crip time – the slow, unrepentant tempo of a body that refuses to bend to the clock or be shipped off for being inconvenient.

By Jacinta Fay

Director: Sarah O’Toole, Performers: Alice Gallanagh, Emer Lyons, Al Cunningham, Donnacha Bushe

This work-in-progress rehearsed reading is supported by the Galway City Arts Office and the Town Hall Theatre.