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29 - English Language and Literature

Queen's University Belfast

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Title and brief description

The Sign of the Whale

Type

I - Performance

Venue(s)

Belfast

Year of first performance

2010

URL

Number of additional authors

Additional information

THE SIGN OF THE WHALE, a two-act play for Tinderbox theatre company performed at Belfast’s Opera House and with a subsequent Irish tour, is a fable about the Troubles and subsequent peace agreement in Northern Ireland. By being set in 1977 – a time when change seems impossible – the play is intended to remind us of the miracle of peace. But it also asks tough questions of how that peace came about: was it a miracle, a collective act of faith, or a collective act of self-deception? Is the way ahead truth and remembering, or lies and forgetting? The play won the Stewart Parker Major Bursary and was shortlisted for the Meyer Whitworth Award. It has been the subject of academic work by Dr Stephanie Lehner and Dr Cillian McGrattan.

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

None

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract