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Amidst a dense fog of uncertainty about her own origin and caught within the clenched fist of 1990\u2019s small-town Ireland, Cora\u2019s \u2018cure\u2019 is the thread that connects her to genealogy, to community and to her own sense of identity. When a moment of crisis causes that thread to fray, she is faced with the prospect of being the point in history where a powerful form of healing is irrevocably lost &#8211; an unraveling with seismic personal and societal consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The world of The Curing Line is one in which the sublime and the ridiculous, the carnal and the mystic intermingle and become confused. The show stretches and subverts operatic form, with a tight-knit core of singers and musicians playing a range of gnarled, mischievous characters that colour and misguide Cora\u2019s odyssey. 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