Lads, when it comes to your time for pickin’ women, you’re not going to have my kind of luck. The best one is taken.

All Julia and John want is to live their lives with their two sons, on their own terms. But despite their hopes, the outside world and its racism puts paid to their plans.

A world premiere of a new play from Rosaleen McDonagh, this tender, complex and beautiful love story examines how external circumstances pull us apart, when all we really want is to be together.

This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in August 2021

Rosaleen McDonagh is a playwright, academic and activist from Ireland. Rosaleen McDonagh worked in Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre for ten years, managing the VAW programme. Theatre work includes Stuck, She’s Not Mine, Rings. In preproduction – Mainstream and Protegee. Shortlisted for the P.J. O’Connor radio play Awards, 2010. Currently in development with RTE on Unsettled, a feature film. 2014 - ‘Write to Play’ Programme, in partnership with Soho Theatre, The Royal Court and The National Theatre of London, where her play Context, about the Ryan report, is in development.