Packy Lee on bringing Gerry Adams to the stage in Agreement
"I THINK we're all a bit shocked, to be honest with you," admits Packy Lee of the overwhelmingly positive response to Agreement, Owen McCafferty's new play
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"I THINK we're all a bit shocked, to be honest with you," admits Packy Lee of the overwhelmingly positive response to Agreement, Owen McCafferty's new play
Owen McCafferty’s dramatisation of the last days of negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement remains accessible while expertly conveying tortuous political tussles
The Lyric is taking on the mantle of a Northern Irish national theatre as it seeks to explain the troubled place to itself with this superb dramatic reflection of the Good Friday Agreement. Playwright Owen McCafferty has distilled gallons of jaw-jaw into a 105-minute, fast-paced show, creating flesh and blood characters out of the political dramatis personae: Mo Mowlam (Andrea Irvine), Tony Blair (Rufus Wright) and Bertie Ahern (Ronan Leahy) represent the British and Irish governments; American George Mitchell (Richard Croxford) chairs the proceedings; the local protagonists are John Hume (Dan...
Phenomenal. On every level Agreement at the Lyric Theatre is something special.
Owen McCafferty's new play, Agreement, gives a superb account, 25 years on, of how the Good Friday Agreement came to be.