The Darkest Corner: No Escape

n May of last year the high court judge Sean Ryan finally revealed the 2,600-page report of Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (commonly known as the Ryan Report). This report followed a nine year investigation into allegations of child sexual, physical and emotional abuse in Catholic Church-run institutions.

In responding to the report, Taoiseach Brian Cowen claimed it shone a powerful light into ‘the darkest corner of the history of the State'. Under the title, The Darkest Corner, we present a series of powerful work which both remembers the findings and reflects on the systemic abuse revealed within state-funded and regulated institutions.

The Darkest Corner series begins with No Escape a piece of documentary theatre based on the findings of the Ryan Report.

No Escape is compiled and edited by celebrated writer and journalist Mary Raftery and directed by Róisín McBrinn. Mary's 1999 film States of Fear and follow up book Suffer the Little Children exposed the widespread abuse of children in institution run by the Church.

Website: www.abbeytheatre.ie