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theatre · Wednesday 21 October 2026 · 8:00pm 
Unreconciled
At Mermaid Arts Centre · Main Street, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Part of a recurring programme
Only the published dates are confirmed for this programme.
At Mermaid Arts Centre · Main Street, Bray, Co. Wicklow
Only the published dates are confirmed for this programme.
Unreconciled, a solo play written by Jay Sefton with Mark Basquill, comes to Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray for one performance on Wednesday 21 October 2026, followed by a post-show panel discussion. The play draws on Sefton’s own experience as a young performer whose theatre director was later defrocked and named in a grand jury report into the sexual abuse of minors, and it sets that story against the backdrop of 1980s Philadelphia. It has won the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association Award for both Best New Play and Best Solo Performance, and a feature-length documentary following the production is currently in development.
The performance runs 75 minutes, followed by a 30-minute panel discussion, giving the audience a structured space to sit with the material afterwards rather than filing straight out. Reviewers have pointed to the show’s mix of unflinching honesty and surprising humour as it examines how institutions denied survivors justice for decades. The show carries content notes for references to smoking, drinking and the clerical sexual abuse of minors, and is recommended for ages 16 and over. This is not a light evening out, but a piece built around testimony and reckoning, staged as one man’s account rather than a dramatised composite.
Mermaid Arts Centre is on Main Street in Bray, a short walk from Bray Dart and rail station, with public car parks close by and regular Dublin Bus and Dart services into the town.
Bray’s seafront and Main Street bars and restaurants sit just outside the door, making it easy to build an evening around the show. There is more to see in Bray and across Co. Wicklow.
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