A woman looking for her child is lied to. An artist pitches a memorial that’s never built. A landlord raises rents. A parrot disappears. (Or does it?) Thousands of children disappear. (No question this time.) There’s family reunions, collective actions, inexplicable Mormons.

Both intimate and sweeping, raw and heady, Absent the Wrong is about 70 years of adoptees looking for answers. It’s about being the only person in the family photo who isn’t white and not daring to ask why, about having multiple heritages but knowing nothing about any of them. (So are they really heritages? Can you inherit loss?)

Working as an assistant during Dublin Fringe Festival, I covered the costume designer Pai Rathaya in the production of "Absent The Wrong" for two days during tech, it was a great experience to feel the responsability of the costume designer in a production for the Abbey Theatre and how much work is involved to make it work.

Performed by: Jolly Abraham

Performed by: Curtis-Lee Ashqar

Performed by: Sheik Bah

Performed by: Noelle Brown

Performed by: Caoimhe Coburn Gray

Performed by: Kwaku Fortune

Performed by: Colleen Keogh

Performed by: Sophie Lenglinger

Performed by: Leah Minto

Performed by: Emmanuel Okoye

Written by: Dylan Coburn Gray

Directed by: Veronica Coburn

Directing Associate: Claire O'Reilly

Set Design: Molly O'Cathain

Costume Design: Pai Rathaya

Lighting Design: Suzie Cummins

Composition and Sound Design: Jenny O'Malley

Choreography: Olwyn Lyons