Belfast One Act Festival

 The line up includes - 

Thursday 22nd October 2015 @ 7.30pm

1st - Chinamen by Michael Frayn
Performed By Holywood Players (Co. Down) (Comedy)
Two actors play five characters. She has asked a woman, her new hippy boyfriend and some other guests for dinner. He invited the woman's deserted husband. The object is to keep the estranged husband and wife apart.

2nd - The Zoo Story By Edward Albee (Drama)
Performed By Belvoir Players (Belfast) (Comedy)
Peter and Jerry, meet on a park bench. Peter is a middle-class publishing executive with a family. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man, desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being. The action is linear, unfolding in front of the audience in “real time”. The elements of ironic humor and unrelenting dramatic suspense are brought to a climax when Jerry brings his victim down to his own savage level.

Friday 23rd October 2015 @ 7.30pm

1st - Cathleen ni Houlihan by W.B. Yeats (Drama)
Performed by Calry Drama (Sligo)
Written by Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1902. The play centre’s on the 1798 Rebellion. The play is startlingly nationalistic, in its last pages encouraging young men to sacrifice their lives for the heroine Cathleen ni Houlihan, who represents an independent and separate Irish state.

2nd -  Nowhere Now by Dan O’Brien (Drama)
Performed By At Large Theatre Company (Dublin)

PLAY CONTAINS SOME STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT MATERIAL

This play is about work. Work-a-day work-a-day work-a-day work. Rise and shine! Work til you die! Or til you hungry! Or ‘til the boss says it’s time to go home. And then stick a knife in his throat. Everybody dies. Work good work good work good. This play is about work.

 

Saturday Afternoon 24th October @ 1:30pm

1st -Prince Lear by Jules Tasca (Drama)

Performed by PIC Payers (Clara, Co.Offaly)

Prequel to Shakespeare’s King Lear. The three daughters await the birth of another child. The King is hoping for a son and Heir. The girls hope otherwise. Their mother dies in childbirth and by the time the king returns home……

2nd -  Final Purification by Stephen Mc Guinness 

Performed by Outcast Drama Group (Co Roscommon) (Comedy) This years production was written by A local man and also a member of the Outcast Drama Group, Stephen Mc Guinness. Rehearsals have been great fun and we hope we reflect this to our audiences over all festivals this year

3rd -  The Meeting by Gráinne Curistan (Comedy)

Performed by At Large Theatre Company (Dublin)

Most of us are familiar with the array of interesting colleagues that make up an office workplace; the crazy one, the grumpy one, the smart-ass one and the long suffering glue that holds the place together. This piece brings these characters together in a meeting scenario where they can lay all their craziness out on the table.

 

Saturday Evening 24th October 2015 @ 7:30pm

1st - The Zoo Story

By Edward Albee (Drama)

Performed by Moat Club (Nass, Co Kildare)

Peter and Jerry, meet on a park bench. Peter is a middle-class publishing executive with a family. Jerry is an isolated and disheartened man, desperate to have a meaningful conversation with another human being. The action is linear, unfolding in front of the audience in “real time”. The elements of ironic humor and unrelenting dramatic suspense are brought to a climax when Jerry brings his victim down to his own savage level.

2nd – Parentcraft

By Stephen Smith (Comedy)

Performed By St. Patrick Dramatic Society (Dalkey)

4 expectant mothers and one father find themselves in a small hospital room awaiting the midwife who is to give them their first Parentcraft class. Differences in experiences, outlook and class lead to some interesting and at times hilarious exchanges, as each of the five have to face, and come to terms with, the prejudices and foibles of their companions.

Followed by the

Final Adjudication & Awards Ceremony