REVIEW: Ulster American, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe ✭✭✭✭✭
Paul T Davies reviews David Ireland’s play Ulster American now playing at The Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.
Paul T Davies reviews David Ireland’s play Ulster American now playing at The Traverse Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe.
David Ireland’s multi-award-winning play Everything Between Us will have its English premiere at the Finborough Theatre running from 30 April 2017. It is Day One of the newly formed Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Northern Ireland at Stormont. As Sandra Richardson prepares to take her seat on the Commission, her long lost sister Teeni explodes into the chamber and attacks the South African chairwoman, Dikeledi Mashiane. Deep in the heart of the Northern Irish Parliament, overshadowed by the legacy of hurt, Sandra and Teeni must fight through decades of violence, anger and denial to discover if reconciliation is possible on the pathway to peace. First produced by Solas Nua and Tinberbox Theatre, the play premiered in Washington DC, Belfast and Scotland in 2010, Everything About Us is a dark, dramatic, unflinching comedy written by Northern Ireland’s boldest contemporary writer. The cast of Everything About Us includes Katrina McKeever (Teeni), and … Read more