White Star of the North
- By:
- Rosemary Jenkinson
- Management:
- Lyric Theatre, Belfast
- Cast:
- Andrew Simpson, Michael Liebmann, Ruairi Conaghan, Kerr Logan, Roisin Gallagher
- Director:
- Des Kennedy
Production information can change over the run of the show.
The centenary of the sinking of the Belfast-built ship of dreams is upon us and with it a raft of new writing about the iconic disaster that is Titanic. The year 1912 also saw the signing of the Ulster Covenant by some 500,000 northern Protestants in protest at the proposed introduction of Home Rule for Ireland. These two landmark events - and a dizzying number of additional historical snippets - come together in Rosemary Jenkinson's unruly family saga, set against the cultural and religious fault lines and class divisions of the day. While social and political turmoil rages in the streets, a widowed doctor Robert Massey (Ruairi Conaghan) struggles to contend with the demons at large within his own walls. With no wife to support his child-rearing efforts, this enlightened, humorous man is helpless to staunch either his daughter Evelyn's (Roisin Gallagher) slide into depression or his son Crawford's (Andrew Simpson) involvement in paramilitary activity. In desperation, he takes a brave decision to pack them off to the land of opportunity on the other side of the Atlantic - aboard Titanic...
Run sheet
- Lyric Belfast
- March 28-April 14
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