Theatre
The Poetical Life of Philomena McGuinness
TRACK RECORD
4.5
2 past reviews · 2022–2025
AUDIENCE
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during the festival
This 2026 run isn't reviewed yet. The track record reflects this production's previous Fringe run.
A solo play about an Irish nurse traveling to London in 1939 to join the British war effort while grappling with her identity as a poet, inspired by true stories of Irish WWII nurses.
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