This is Paradise
At once timely and timeless in its nuanced observation of the fragility of peace, This is Paradise is a powerful monologue exploring what it takes from us to begin again.
About This is Paradise
10 April 1998, Belfast.
The Good Friday Agreement is signed, promising peace to Northern Ireland.
Away from all that pageantry, a river is rising in Kate. When a phone call from a desperate young woman compels Kate to return to a relationship she hoped was left in another life, she embarks on a journey which risks breaking the uneasy peace she has since made for herself.
A powerful, intimate and dream-like monologue shot through with the vibrancy of living, Michael John O’Neill’s Popcorn Award-winning This is Paradise, directed by Katherine Nesbitt, and featuring an acclaimed performance from Amy Molloy, explores the ramifications of what happens when one woman is asked to rescue the man who promised to destroy her – and what it takes from any of us to decide to begin again.
Access performances:
BSL interpreted - Wed 17 Aug, 6.30PM [interpreter is Nicolle Murdoch]
Audio Described - Thu 25 Aug, 4PM [describer is Fiona Forbes]
Photography by Lara Cappelli, Design by Michael Cranston
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