julie

Written By: Charlotte McCurry
Directed By: Paula McFetridge
Production Premiere: 6th August 2025

Informed by the work of Relatives for Justice, this powerful new play charting one families’ quest for answers premiered at Féile an Phóbhail 6th – 9 th August 2025 in Roddy McCorley Heritage Centre before touring throughout August.

Lenadoon,

West Belfast,

1981

Bernadette loves Gene Kelly, Doris Day, and Julie Garland.

She shares a bedroom with her wee sister – Julie.

Julie loves Sheena Easton, Annie Lennox, and Adam Ant.

Julie isn’t too bothered there’s women out banging bin lids - one of the hunger strikers just died.

She’s more concerned with sorting a new pair of Topaz tights for the Horn Drive disco.

She is fourteen after all…

Julie Livingstone was fatally shot by a plastic bullet while crossing the road near her home. Seen through the eyes of Julie’s sister Bernadette, this powerful new play follows a teenage girl navigating her own grief, her family’s loss and their struggle for justice.

CREATIVE TEAM

Writer: Charlotte McCurry

Director: Paula McFetridge

Producer: Ronan McManus

Production Manager/DSM:
Caitlin Hunter

Technical SM: Declan Paxton

Set and Costume Design:
Tracey Lindsey

Composer: Katie Richardson

AV Design: Fergus Wachala-Kelly

Lighting Design: Ronan McManus

Production Brand Design:
Laura Craig

Photography:
Carrie Davenport/Ciaran Bagnall

Cast:

Charlotte McCurry

McCurry’s adept writing silently evokes questions about modern legacy investigations, collusion and what justice means for families.

Alan in Belfast
a powerful piece of theatre which although is essentially one family’s story, is universal and one that will be recognised by other families and audiences beyond Belfast.

Anthony Neeson, Belfast Media Group
McCurry’s script laces the domestic and the political, the personal and the public, with familial warmth and a welcome dose of dark-hued Northern Irish humour that tempers the terrible events and unimaginable burdens it describes…….Director Paula McFetridge again shows herself a sensitive and assured mediator of difficult material.

Michael Quinn, British Theatre Guide
…in Tracey Lindsay's set and costumes, Ronan McManus's lighting, Fergus Wachala-Kelly's visuals and Katie Richardson's sound design, we find the kind of creative accompaniment which helps ‘Julie’ soar, an aesthetically and melodically captivating illustration of discovery and vulnerability.

Si Arts NI

PAST PERFORMANCES

6th - 9th August: Roddy McCorley Heritage Centre, Belfast
10th August: Seamus Heaney Homeplace, Bellaghy
15th & 16th August: The Playhouse, Derry
17th August: The Old Church Centre, Cushendun