Carthaginians by Frank McGuinness

Wednesday, 22 February 2012 to Saturday, 25 February 2012

Time:  WEDNESDAY 22nd - SATURDAY 25th FEBRUARY • 8pm FRIDAY 24th FEBRUARY • 11am
Tickets: Tickets: Thurs, Fri, Sat 8pm: £9.50, £12.50, £14.50 concessions available
Fri 11am: £5.50 schools
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An elegy for Bloody Sunday in Derry, it is the survival of tragedy, of intense grief which becomes the unspoken subject through the personal journeys of three women and three men who camp out in a graveyard awaiting the rise of the dead.

Dido is the outsider who brings daily pram loads of supplies including a script of his own attempt at a Troubles Play, The Burning Balaclava, the comic centrepiece which is surrounded by jokes, quizzes and encounters which pass the time of waiting.  Individual resurrections signal a community, like Carthage, rising from its ashes.

Hauntingly coherent beauty and of sadness and of a deep defiant joy.  

The Financial times

Brilliantly effective and affective.  

The Guardian
 

The play is recommended for age 14 +. Some adult content.

A completeness which engages our absolute attention.  

The Independent
 

 

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