Spokesong

By Stewart Parker

 

Old Northern Bank, Waring Street, Belfast( as part of the Cathedral Quater Festival)

April 26-May 17 (previews April 22-25)

Booking: Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 902 46609

The Empty Space @Smock Alley, Dublin

May 24- June 15 (previews May 22-23)

Booking: From Tuesday 5th May on 01 671 9278

 

"What it all comes down to is personal mobility...imagine a fleet of civic bikes...stacked on covered racks on the corner of every street...which anybody can ride anywhere, free of charge, inside the city centre."

Act I - Spokesong

 

The Lyric Theatre & Rough Magic present Spokesong as part of The Parker Project, a double bill of Stewart Parker's work.

In Spokesong the action takes place in Belfast during the early 1970s, and the eighty years preceding them. It is set in a Victorian bicycle shop, owned by Frank Stock, philosopher and dreamer, who believes in the regeneration of his native city through the miracle of the bicycle.  

“When Stewart Parker wrote these plays, each at a particularly dark point in the Troubles, people thought he was crazy to imagine the possibility of progress or redemption in Northern Ireland. As it turns out, he was absolutely right and it now seems as if anything is possible. But with their emphasis on cycles in history and the dangers of failing to negotiate with the past, these deeply relevant plays act as both a warning and an inspiration.”
- Lynne Parker

"Exciting, funny, moving" RTE The View

"Amazing" RTE The View

 

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Daisy: Kathy Kiera Clarke

Julian: Richard Clements

Frank: Dan Gordon

Francis: Will Irvine

Kitty: Ali White

Trick Cyclist: Marty Rea

Musician: Hélene Montague

Musician: Shane McVicker

Creative and Production Team
Director: Lynne Parker

Designer: Monica Frawley

Lighting Designer: Sinead Mckenna

Sound Design: Ivan Birthistle & Vincent Doherty

Musical Director: Hélene Montague
Production Manager: Marianne Crosslé
Stage Director: Paula Tierney
Stage Manager: Justin Murphy

Props Master: Pauline McKay

Costume Supervisor: Monica Ennis

Veneue Production Manager, Belfast: Dave Stuttard

Venue Production Manager, Dublin: Aidan Wallace

Production Electrician: Kevin Smith

Photographers: Chris Hill & Colm Hogan

For the Lyric

Administration Manager: Clare Gault

Executive Director: Michael Diskin

Finance Manager: Deirdre Ferguson

Publicist: Shane Finnegan @ Aiken PR

Development Manager: Hugh Odling-Smee

For Rough Magic

Company Manager: Claire O'Neill

Executive Producer: Diego Fasciati

Associate Producter: Cian O'Brien

Publicist: Kathy Scott

Assistant Producer: Lara Hickey (AIB Seeds Programme)

Assistant Production Manager: Eoin Kilkenny (AIB Seeds Programme)