Freefalling

“this gripping production could not have been more successful

IRISH NEWS

by Owen McCafferty, Produced in association with Virtual Reality in February 1996.

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

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.

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 4*

an arresting 80 minutes of startling theatre

THE EVENING HERALD 4*

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