Magdalen is a layered, one-woman play inspired by the true stories of the women and girls who labored in one of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries in the mid-twentieth century. A narrator invites us into an abandoned building in present-day Dublin — once operated by the Good Shepherd Sisters — where the voices of the past echo through its walls.

Through the ghosts of young “penitent” washer-women, a parish priest, and a Reverend Mother, Erin Layton brings to life a haunting, multi-character performance that bears witness to a hidden chapter of Irish history — one of silence, endurance, and the search for redemption.