Jaki McCarrick’s internationally acclaimed play BELFAST GIRLS, will play in Stockholm from November 5th – November 22nd 2019!
A country ravaged by famine and poverty. Five women who all sacrificed something of themselves in order to survive. A ship – an opportunity – a new country built by sunshine and dreams.
Ireland 1850. Five young women getting on a ship that will take them to Australia. They dream of a future where they have power over their own destiny, but dark secrets in their past is on their heels.
The European premiere of Belfast Girls opens in Stockholm, in translation (Swedish), on November 5th. Translated by Tove Simonsen, this production of BelfastGirls is presented by Batalj Scenkonst (directed by Malin B. Erikson) and will run for a number of weeks. McCarrick’s play has also recently been adapted for the screen and she is currently in talks with producers about this. There are UK and further American productions of Belfast Girls slated for 2020. Meanwhile, Jaki has also written the female version of her award-winning play Leopoldville which will have its first reading at RADA on September 25th.
Belfast Girls was developed at the National Theatre Studio and shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the BBC Tony Doyle Award and won the Galway Theatre Festival Playwriting Prize.
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