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It had me rolling around on my sofa. So much to ponder in the Jez Butterworth play I … Continue reading →, I first went to see Duke Special live at the Shaw theatre in May 2010 – I had a seat in the very front row, and he was playing with the same full band as tonight. Eric Miller is a Belfast loyalist.

Co-produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach and The Royal Court Theatre, Head Office, 215 Vauxhall Bridge RoadLondon SW1V 1EJEngland. ga('ec:addProduct', { 'name': 'Ulster American' Ireland's other plays include Summertime and most recently the five-star Ulster American. 'id': '9781350047921', If tragicomedy is the natural Irish form, Ireland makes his own inversion here, beginning with amused splutters, ending in hard gulps.” –  Published By. $('#addtocartbutton-258161').click(function() { For information on how we process your data, read our Privacy Policy. 'id': '9781474298209', It is funny and disturbing all at once.

Year. What is the meaning of 'Turra ma gurra' on p.39? . ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); Certainly conveyed the real and the virtual spaces … Continue reading →, What do you do to save a precious Bank Holiday Monday (and Star Wars Day) from feeling like a complete waste when you are too poorly to go out and do anything special? It’s an exhibition that doesn’t have the famous artefact you might expect it to feature as the key part of its display – Pepys’ original manuscript … Continue reading →, Bob and I went to see The Masterbuilder last week.

ga('send', 'event', 'UX', 'click', 'add to cart'); ga('ec:addProduct', She gave it a pretty good name (being a London-dweller fond of a bit of assonance) but never added any pages or posts: … Continue reading →, (I drafted this blog back in November, but didn’t want to post ‘spoilers’, hence left it as an unpublished draft till now) Another blog I’ll have to finish another time.

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His first play, WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY, was produced at Oran Mor, Glasgow in 2009. Nor is it exclusively a working class identity – while Slim is from a working class area, Eric seems to be more affluent, signalled by the titular address, made famous in Van the Man’s song of the same title (by the way, Van himself is a NI protestant, ‘Ulster Scots’ by heritage). How can we shift or nudge our identity away from this bizarrely oppositional and negative emphasis on what we’re not?

Information Tickets. }); I do continue to try to get more comfortable with being Irish, embracing aspects of the richness of the wider Irish cultural identity….but it’s not easy. | Irish Playography, Irish Theatre Institute, 17 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02 F293 • Cyprus Avenue is a black comedy about a ... like me, you think of Stephen Rea as an actor who exudes languidness, think again, because the best moment in this play is a monologue, akin to stand up comedy, where Eric races back and forth ranting and raving about Irishness. • 'id': '9781350111813', 'id': '9781350047938', Really blackly funny and disturbing. I’ve just read the script of Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland (completely sold out, so I couldn’t get to see it during its run at the Royal Court – which ends today) The most brilliant and shocking play about the … Continue reading →, (Warning – this piece contains some potential spoilers, although I’ve stopped short of spelling things out in some cases. It refers to a residential street in Belfast Northern Ireland..

Cyprus Avenue2018-06-275.0Reviewer's RatingSome advice for the audiences of the Public Theater’s Cyprus Avenue: brace yourself. ga('ec:addProduct',

This event is free. More reflection later. . It's violent, funny and a little over the top. I would never put that on a form when asked to state my ethnicity; I always put White British, while resenting the (usual) absence of an option to put Northern Irish. They recently supported Westlife in Croke Park, headlined the second stage at Longitude and have also shared the stage with the likes of Mumford & Sons and Dermot Kennedy at this year's Malahide Castle, and Clean Bandit and Jax Jones at Sea Sessions. 'name': 'Cyprus Avenue'

adapted by Sarah Hanly. His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore, but his cultural heritage is under siege.

“[A] complex, unsettling and provocative play about nationhood and identity” –  Boy gets boy back again.

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{ I’ve just read the script of Cyprus Avenue by David Ireland (completely sold out, so I couldn’t get to see it during its run at the Royal Court – which ends today) The most brilliant and shocking play about the Northern Irish loyalist identity and destructive sectarian madness that I have ever read.

'name': 'Cyprus Avenue' ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); }); $('#addtocartbutton-376042').click(function() { }); Cyprus Avenue follows Miller's identity crisis as he begins to believe his five week-old granddaughter is the reincarnation of Gerry Adams. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. ga('ec:addProduct', 'name': 'Everything Between Us' }); Title. }); I've read few plays that have disturbed me as much as this. ga('ec:addProduct', { In reading it, I found a lot of parallels between American racial strife and gender discrimination and the troubles of Northern Ireland--it is eerie how these issues that we see as complex history really just boil down to simple hate and the unwillingness to redistribute power equally. ga('ec:addProduct', ( Log Out /  but also an expose of that whole schizoid (very male) extreme loyalist identity he exemplifies – an all too common identity  still very much surviving in Northern Ireland today; with anger, stubborn prejudice, hatred, misogyny, homophobia and a smidge of self-loathing at its very heart. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The River – paddling in Butterworth’s strangely compelling world, Duke Special – Shepherds Bush Empire, 20th December 2012, Another gulp by the culture vultures: David Hockney conspicuously consumed. ga('send', 'event', 'UX', 'click', 'add to cart');

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ga('ec:setAction', 'add'); Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. I had managed to book our tickets for a night when I was supposed to be attending 3 other meetings/events(!) This group of people – this tribe I was born into – do exist (you can’t unravel the whole history of the Ulster Scots plantations; you can’t ship the whole lot of us off somewhere and dump us in the sea) – so what do we do about them/us?

An Abbey Theatre production. Fresh from an incredibly busy summer the band are set to play Cork this October. ga('ec:setAction', 'add');

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Religion (protestant christianity versus roman catholic christianity) is just the hook for a tribal identity to hang upon – it becomes a post-rationalisation for the tribal hatred and paranoia. March 3rd 2016 Many, many years ago, I did my first dissertation (for my Eng Lit degree) on Northern Irish political theatre.

I myself struggle with how to find some version that doesn’t just dump the whole thing. by Patrick Kavanagh. T +353 (0)1 670 4906 | E info@irishtheatreinstitute.ie 'id': '9781350111820', The play X by Alistair McDowall at the Royal Court … Continue reading →, I really enjoyed ‘Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire Revolution’ – at the National Maritime Museum yesterday.

Boy’s son gets crown.


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