Commissioned as a legacy project for Derry Londonderry’s 2013 UK City of Culture, novelist and screenwriter Colin Bateman’s second stage play, Bag For Life premieres at The Playhouse Theatre in Derry from this month.
“What are we to make of the men of violence whose time has been and gone, and who have settled into both civil and civilian life? Is there any reason at all to suppose that their capacity for murder has somehow drained away, or will it always be there, like a lining of grease and fat lurking in their mental plumbing?”
Laced with rich black humour and delving deep into our murky past, this one woman play acted by Belfast’s Julie Addy tells the story of a young mother who comes face to face with the man who murdered her brother during the Troubles whilst shopping in Tesco.
“It also looks at it from the other side too,” writer Colin Bateman said. “If you have been involved in wrongdoing in the past, do you ever really change? Is there a part of you that could still behave in that manner?”
Inspired by a short story Bateman wrote last year called The Gaining of Wisdom, the story is being directed by the Playhouse’s in-house director Kieran Griffiths and will run from Tuesday 5th April to Saturday 9th April. Tickets are just £10 and you can book them or find more information about Bag For Life here.
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