a quarrel with myself
Written By: Vincent Higgins
Directed By: Paula McFetridge
Production Premiere: Online nightly 22nd - 26th March 2021
A bold experiment in broadcasting is coming…
A new play at 9:30pm each night…
A Quarrel with Myself was presented as part of Imagine! 2021 – the 7th Annual Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics.
Across 5 nights, 5 free 12 minute plays were staged online.
It tells the inside story of a ground-breaking experiment: newly formed RTÉ Northern Ireland join forces with BBC NI 32 to offer us a ‘non-partisan’ news outlet for the island of Ireland.
Despite teething problems they manage to discuss vital current affairs and bring us the launch of European Religious Site of the Year 2024.
Will the powers that be resist interfering?
Is ‘non-partisan’ news even possible?
*Title is inspired by WB Yeats ‘Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry’.
Performed by Seaínín Brennan and Maggie Cronin
PAST PERFORMANCES
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Monday 22nd March - Friday 26th March - IMAGINE Festival
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