Meeting At Menin Gate
Production Year & Locations:
2013, The MAC
Starring:
Andrea Irvine, James Doran, Maria Connolly, Marty Maguire
Key Creatives:
Martin Lynch (writer), Matt Torney (director), Niall Rea (set designer), James McFetridge (lighting designer), Andrew Stanford (sound designer), Judy Kay (costume designer), Patrick Freeman (deputy stage manager), Natalie Murphy (assistant stage manager), James Cosgrave (fight director), Rory Casey (producer), Deirdre Ashe (administrator), Erika Reid (project manager), Nadean Lowe (education and outreach coordinator), Grainne Lynch (marketing assistant)
Meeting at Menin Gate is the final instalment in a ground-breaking three-play commission – The Ulster Trilogy – by Green Shoot Productions. Intended as an audit of where Northern Ireland, 18 years after the ceasefires. It explores the tense outcome when a Protestant woman confronts a former republican involved in her father’s murder.
Attending a cross-community Peace and Reconciliation tour of World War I battle sites, Liz (Andrea Irvine), a Protestant nurse, meets Terry (James Doran), an ex-IRA gunman. Over a bottle of wine in a hotel room in Ypres, they confront painful truths about the past.
Is it a two-person Truth Commission or simply raw, naked revenge?
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