Theatre: Owen McCafferty’s searing new dramatisation of the Belfast Agreement negotiations is a political thriller with echoes of Greek drama
Patrick O’Kane
Patrick O’Kane on playing David Trimble: ‘It’s not my job to judge my character. Quite the opposite’
The actor play found it fascinating to follow the late Ulster Unionist leader’s hard road to compromise for Owen McCafferty’s play Agreement
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As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky
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A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast
The actor is one of the most intense and intelligent performers in Irish theatre; little surprise, then, that a conversation with him starts to sound like a masterclass on acting
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