Two men walk into a bar. It’s Belfast, 2009. In the play Quietly by Owen McCafferty, now playing at Corrib Theatre, barkeep Robert (Murri Lazaroff-Babin), a young man from Poland, is watching the World Cup on the telly and fielding texts from his girlfriend. Jimmy (Ted Rooney) is the first to arrive. He was raised Catholic, […]
contemporary Irish drama, Contemporary Irish playwrights, divided societies, Gemma Whelan, Murri Lazaroff-Babin, Northern Ireland, Owen McCafferty, Quietly, Ted Rooney, terrorism, the Good Friday Agreement, The Troubles, Tim Blough, violenceCorrib Theatre is back with the second play in its season of contemporary Irish plays, Lifeboat. This the extraordinary true story of two teenage girls–Bess Walder (Britt Harris), 15, of Liverpool, and Beth Cummings (Kayla Lian), 14, of London–who clung to an overturned lifeboat for 19 terrifying hours in the northern Atlantic Ocean after their ship […]
Avital Shira, Britt Harris, child evacuees during World War II, Contemporary Irish playwrights, Corrib Theatre, Kayla Lian, Lifeboat, live theatre, Nicola McCartney, Northwest Children's Theatre, Operation Pied Piper, The City of Benares, World War II drama