1980s Ireland. Five sisters, bound together under their mother's watchful eye, spend their lives longing for escape, power and the one local eligible bachelor.

Dark, raucous and with a tender heart, BÁN is a reworking of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba. Carys D. Coburn's play was a finalist for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2025.

Carys D. Coburn is a writer and theatremaker based in Dublin whose other work includes Boys and Girls, Drawing Crosses on a Dusty Windowpane and Citysong, which won the Verity Bargate Award. They are a collaborating writer with MALAPROP Theatre, with whom they have co-written JERICHO, Everything Not Saved, Before You Say Anything and HOTHOUSE.