Bailegangaire, Arches, Glasgow

Talk is never cheap in Tom Murphy's mighty mid-1980s thunder through three women's lives in an isolated Irish cottage, but it does come thick and fast. As the bed-bound Mommo is gradually prodded into unravelling the mythology that shaped her destiny and that of her granddaughter, the story she tells about how a town's laughter is stolen away becomes a way of holding on to each other in a world of quiet brutality.