The Moira Trilogy
Since 2009, Alan Bissett's series of one-woman shows The Moira Monologues, about Moira Bell—single mother, cleaner and Falkirk's Hardest Woman—have been performed all over Scotland. Now, for the first time, Alan will be touring all three shows as a one-night spectacular.
The trilogy allows audiences to trace Moira’s enduring relationship with her best friend Babs, in this journey of female friendship through different stages of life, whilst also following Moira’s commentary on historical and political changes in the wider world.
With the original Moira Monologues set against the background of the 2008 financial crash, to More Moira Monologues touching on Scotland’s Independence Referendum, Trump and Brexit, to the focus on the pandemic in Moira in Lockdown, these plays trace a tumultuous twelve years in history, as seen through the eyes of a working class woman from Falkirk, who is based on Alan’s own family members.