we have spoken of this before

One day Maggie Roland, a well preserved woman approaching her fiftieth year, is walking home from the supermarket and finds something lying by the railway track. At first she isn’t sure what the object is. But as she inches her way closer she realises the figure is actually a young woman, pencil thin, dressed in filthy black rags. But who is she ? Where did she come from ? And how did she end up lying beside the railway track ? Maggie decides to take her home. So begins we have spoken of this before – a powerful, haunting and atmospheric work that explores the growing bond between two damaged women – Maggie, scarred by never ending years of loneliness and a wasted but “comfortable” life and the girl, suffering from physical, mental and emotional abuse and barely clinging to life itself. At the heart of the play is also a slowly unravelling mystery adding more tension to this layered story about the timeless, almost mythic struggle for basic human needs – love, family and survival.