Bold Girls
**Upper Circle on sale for remaining performances. Call Box Office on 0141 429 0022 to book**
Belfast in the early 1990s. Against a backdrop of gunfire and police raids, four women whose lives have been turned upside down by the Troubles, carry on with everyday life.
But what starts out as a riotous night out, leads to the spilling of some very sobering truths in the early hours.
Packed with abrasive humour, Bold Girls is a story of love, friendship and betrayal.
Rona Munro, whose trilogy The James Plays - written for the National Theatre of Scotland - was a recent international hit, burst onto the scene in 1991 with this celebration of women’s lives in West Belfast.
Schools Events
We have schools workshops for Bold Girls: Thu 25 Jan 4.30pm – 6.30pm Thu 1 Feb 4.30pm – 6.30pm For Higher and Advanced Higher Drama Students £6.50 per student (teachers go free) The session for a maximum of 30 students will reveal the play’s key ideas and themes and look at character development and staging choices. Please contact our Box Office 0141 429 0022 to book. |
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DATES
Date Time Information 24 Jan 7.30pm Preview 25 Jan 7.30pm Preview 26 Jan 7.30pm Preview 27 Jan 7.30pm 30 Jan 7.30pm Discussion 31 Jan 7.30pm 1 Feb 1.30pm 1 Feb 7.30pm 2 Feb 7.30pm Signed 3 Feb 2.30pm Audio Described Captioned 3 Feb 7.30pm 6 Feb 7.30pm 7 Feb 7.30pm 8 Feb 7.30pm Audio Described 9 Feb 7.30pm 10 Feb 2.30pm 10 Feb 7.30pm
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Cast & Creative Team
CREATIVE
Director - Richard Baron
Writer - Rona Munro
Designer - Neil Haynes
Lighting Designer - Stuart Jenkins
Composer/Sound Designer - Jon Beales
CAST
Deirdre Davis - Nora
Scarlett Mack - Cassie
Lucianne McEvoy - Marie
Sinéad Sharkey - Deirdre
Reviews
"a quartet of beautifully realised performances"
- The Herald
"at the heart of the production's success, though, lies a quartet of terrific, perfectly-pitched performances"
- The Scotsman
"Poignant tale of female survival"
- The Times
Press
“Is the play dated? Sadly not. It’s women just telling their stories, still fighting the fight, which is heightened right now. It’s simply serendipity that we’re doing it when all of this has started to come out."
Deirdre Davis talks to the Sunday Post
"Bold Girls is less a “Troubles play” and more a witty, abrasive take on relationships"
Scarlett Mack in The National
“It’s a story about a marriage and a group of friendships that gets challenged by the idea of the past crashing into the present,”
Lucianne McEvoy in the Evening Times