Less a haunting than an evocation, Bolger’s play explores the ordinary lives of both families – one marked by tragedy and the other by joy – as they struggle to find love and hope in sickness and in health, in birth and in death… April Bright is haunted by sorrow. Sometimes love and tenderness and sometimes fear and anxiety gleam beneath, but the memories are always cathartic. In this exploration of sorrow – both imprisoning and liberating – Bolger infuses the pain-wracked lives of two families living in the same house fifty years apart with a deeply effective lyricism, and offers a striking vision of personal reconciliation with the past and the present.