Presentation of Play About Magdalen Laundries

NEW YORK
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This Wednesday evening, February 25, 2015 from 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM, the Hofstra University (900 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead, NY 11550 on Long Island) Irish Studies Program will present the one-person, award-winning play, “Magdalen,” at the Spiegel Theater, South Campus, California Avenue (with parking adjacent to the theater building). Admission is free but space is limited.

Written and performed by Erin Layton, “Magdalen” is inspired by the true stories of the women and girls who passed through as unpaid, slave laborers in one of Ireland’s many Magdalen Laundries in the mid-twentieth century.

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