freefalling

Written By: Owen McCafferty
Directed By: Karl Wallace
Production Premiere: February 1996

He works in a burger bar; she is in a dead-end university course. They want some excitement, an adventure. They steal a car. The horrors they imagine could never match the horrors they encounter in real life. They foul-mouth their way through a Belfast version of a film noir, crossing the frontiers of gutter idiom and travelling the roads of timeless Irish drama, with echoes of Bonnie and Clyde and Natural Born Killers.

Produced in association with Virtual Reality.

Performed 1996 in Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen; OMAC, Belfast and Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Revived August 1996 in Famous Grouse House, Edinburgh.

this gripping production could not have been more successful

Irish News
This is a Dr. Martens of a play – it is tough, uncompromising and sinks a well-polished boot into the often soft underbelly of ‘yoof’ drama …. Catch a performance if you possibly can

That’s Entertainment
an exhilarating synthesis of stylish direction, intricately crafted rhetoric and performances as committed as they are controlled

****
The Scotsman
an arresting 80 minutes of startling theatre

****
The Evening Herald

CREATIVE TEAM

Directed by Karl Wallace

Cast: Anne Bird and Miceal Murphy

Projection: Leah Johnston

Set Design: Alison Butler

Original Music composed by Micheal O Suilleabhain

freefalling

this gripping production could not have been more successful

This is a Dr. Martens of a play – it is tough, uncompromising and sinks a well-polished boot into the often soft underbelly of ‘yoof’ drama …. Catch a performance if you possibly can

an exhilarating synthesis of stylish direction, intricately crafted rhetoric and performances as committed as they are controlled

an arresting 80 minutes of startling theatre

CREATIVE TEAM

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