Fallen is presented by Mullingar Student Players at Mullingar Arts Centre on September 9 to 13. The heartbreaking story follows the lives of four unwed Irish mothers working as ‘penitents’ in an institution run by the Church. There, they were forced to wash the sins of lust from their souls while conveniently washing the country’s laundry.

Their babies were taken from them and put up for adoption in the United States and other countries.

The last of the Magdalene Laundries closed in 1996.

Fallen immerses us in the lives of these passionate young women and their caretakers.

Fallen cast: Ciara Daly, Mother Superior; Meghan Bates as a novice nun torn between her vows and her conscience; Kelly Nolan and Hannah Lynch as those carrying the trauma of the laundries into the present day; Alannah Looby, Anna Casey, Katie Purdue, Danni Corcoran and Alanna Corroon Gavin as the girls working in the laundry in 1960s Ireland.