Aoife Kennan’s new confessional show Scratches comes to VAULT Festival 2023

Aoife Kennan’s new confessional show Scratches will be at VAULT Festival 2023.

Plain Heroines will present the production, directed by Gabriella Bird, at The Cage from 31 January – 5 February 2023.

In a frank and honest depiction of self-harm based on personal experience, writer and performer Aoife Kennan celebrates survival, healing and the importance of friendship in a show filled with heart and humour.

Scratches is the story of GIRL and her self-harm. For too long, she’s been hiding her scratches with unfashionably long socks, clever white lies and period pads. But now she’s here to set the record straight. Assisted by her (fabulous and scene-stealing) BEST FRIEND, she explores a series of ‘events’, jumping backwards and forwards through time, trying to make sense of it all.

Joining Kennan on the cast is Zak Ghazi-Torbati while the show has lighting design by Catja Hamilton and sound design and music by Hugh Sheehan.

Writer and performer Aiofe Kennan said: “Self-harm is really hard to talk about. I started writing Scratches really as a way to work out my own feelings about this mad, unmentionable thing I was struggling with.

“We’ve developed this play over several years of ups and downs, but I hope that our recipe of frank and funny can be the start of a conversation. (As well as a really good night out!)”

For more information and tickets, visit www.vaultfestival.com