Dubbeljoint to produce Gary Mitchell’s new play this
Winter…
Gary Mitchell the renowned Belfast playwright whose family was forced to flee their home in Glengormley writes his first play since that event. The play “Remnants of Fear” is a chilling indictment of how paramilitaries are manipulating and corrupting protestant communities. Dubbeljoint Theatre Company are proud to be producing such an important play on the current state of Belfast. We feel, along with many others that it is outrageous that attempts have been made to silence a writer. Dubbeljoint’s ethos as a Theatre Company is to produce cutting edge and provocative theatre that many other theatre company’s shy away from.
Gary Mitchell’s work in the past has explored the dark world of loyalism. “Remnants Of Fear” explores the life of one family, where a young man comes under intense pressure to become part of a loyalist organisation. His father, uncle and grandmother fight each other for the young mans future. With superb wit and great detail Gary Mitchell paints a frighteningly realistic picture. Eileen Pollock and Gerry Doherty star alongside two talented young actors Bryan Steenson and Sam Murdock who are making their first professional debut on stage.
Pam Brighton discovered Gary Mitchell in 1990 when he wrote his first radio play, which won a BBC Radio 4 Young Playwrights Festival Award, and in 1995 he became the first person from Northern Ireland to win the Stewart Parker award. Since then Gary has went on to win numerous awards for plays such as In A Little World Of Our Own, Sinking, Trust and The Force Of Change. Pam and Gary are delighted to be working together on this fantastic new play.
Gary Mitchell received the prestigious Andersonstown News Group Ashling Award for the Arts 2006 for this play.
