Dublin playwright Conor McPherson’s latest play The Night Alive has its Northern Irish premiere this October in the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Running from 6-31 October on the Lyric’s Danske Bank Stage, The Night Alive will also open the 2015 Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival on the 9th October.
Set in Dublin, The Night Alive tells the story of Tommy – a middle-aged man, just about getting by. He’s renting a run-down room in his uncle Maurice’s house, keeping his ex-wife and kids at arm’s length androlling from one get-rich-quick scheme to the other with his pal Doc. Then one night he comes to the aid of Aimee, who’s not had it easy herself, struggling through life the only way she knows how. Their past won’t let go easily. But together there’s a glimmer of hope that they could make something more of their lives. Something extraordinary. Perhaps.
A co-productio between the Lyric and Dublin Theatre Festival, this award-winning play opened this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival at the Gaiety Theatre and stars Adrian Dunbar, Kate Stanley Brennan, Laurence Kinlan, Ian Lloyd-Anderson and Frank Grimes.
The Lyric Theatre’s Executive Producer Jimmy Fay said, “The Night Alive is an extraordinary play that manages to be funny, shocking, contemporary and moving, and the reaction from audiences in Dublin has been amazing. I’m really excited to bring it to Belfast for the first time, and I think our Lyric audiences are going to be blown away by the play”.
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