Carlo Gebler: No One Tells You
The Black Box
Wednesday 13 January, 1.00pm
Doors 12.30pm | Unreserved seating
£12.50
Buy TicketsAs the literary icon Edna O’Brien confronts the brutal realities of old age – pain, confusion, hospitals, carers, the battle to keep writing – the world she built through language begins to contract. Her son Carlo tracks every flicker of resilience and every devastating loss, from the comic to the catastrophic, in a narrative that moves with the real rhythm of decline: hope, setback, defiance, collapse, repeat.
At once a document of artistic obsession and a confrontation with mortality, No One Tells You asks what remains when work falters, independence vanishes and the child becomes the witness.
It is a sad, beautiful and wise meditation on ageing, grief and death, as well as a portrait of his late mother, one of Ireland’s great writers. – Lara Marlowe
Now her son has produced a chronicle of O’Brien’s final years, a twilight marked by her struggle to keep working despite illness and frailty, and of the impact of her death on his own life. – Rory Carroll
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