BELL: Belgian Journal of English Language and Literatures, 1.

In the book, this feels like a victory in the theatre, the audience didn't seem to know that the play had finished. Intimidations, imitations, intimations in Roddy Doyles The woman who walked into doors. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Woman Who Walked Into Doors written by Roddy Doyle which was published in. Novel and play end with Paula beating Charlo with a frying pan, throwing him out and declaring that she has finally 'done something good'. Brief Summary of Book: The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle. Other members of the cast are underused, particularly the wonderful Brian F O'Byrne, who barely makes an impression as Charlo. These later scenes suggest that this material would make a good one-woman show, with Fay's ability to communicate both brittleness and vulnerability suited to such a production. It is only after the first wife-beating incident (over an hour into the play) that the production hits its stride: the stage is cleared of fussy sets and for the first time Hilda Fay's Paula controls the action.

Pretty soon there are some straightforward, comic flashbacks of the early days of Paula and Charlo's relationship, but too much of our focus is drawn to how the different settings are evoked - disco, wedding hall, honeymoon bed and breakfast - and we are not given enough information about the nature of Paula's attachment to Charlo. From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay. This does not invite us into the inner life of a troubled woman. The first, interminable scene, has Paula babbling across the kitchen table to the Guard who comes to tell her that Charlo has been killed.

The women who walked into doors