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• Written by
  Mackie Reyes

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Overview

Grave Matters is a darkly comic play in which a sincere act of devotion becomes increasingly difficult to explain.

Miss Y, a Mexican Catholic teacher living in Cardiff, has been detained after being found digging up a grave at dawn. She believes she has done something necessary. The police would beg to differ.

What follows is not an investigation so much as a slow misalignment: between belief and evidence, care and legality, the living and the dead. The sacred sits awkwardly beside the administrative. The supernatural hovers, never confirmed, never dismissed.

By turns dry, unsettling, and unexpectedly tender, Grave Matters observes what happens when grief is processed by systems unequipped to recognise it — and when an act of devotion is measured using the wrong tools.

*Artwork by @alejandro_mtzvz 

 

This play is part of the Union One Act Festival.