Wild Notes (NHB Modern Plays)

A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from. Deirdre Kinahan's short play Wild Notes was first staged by Solas Nua in Washington D.C. in 2018. The play is also available in the collection Deirdre Kinahan: Shorts.