As a piece of theatre, Swansong speaks to anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, who has ever been denied a voice. It is a mighty tour de force melodrama, faultlessly executed.

Meet Occi Byrne, the illegitimate child of a single mother in the Catholic west of Ireland. Shunned by church, state and family, Occi must fight his way to adulthood in a dog-eat-dog world. Occi, for all his flawed humanity is a symbol of hope. An unlikely hero who faces insurmountable odds and never gives up. His is a timely message. An important story.

Tragic, tender and uproariously funny, Swansong is the story of a lost soul in search of a home, from one of the masters of Irish drama.