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Thursday May 8 8.00pm
White’s Tavern


This short play by Una Woods (approx 40 mins) explores themes of memory, childhood, loss, and survival. Using a language that is poetic and visual, the drama weaves together fragile threads of the lives of its three main characters, and with sudden comic moments and edgy intensity, exposes the pain and joy, as well as the emptiness and richness of their journeys.

Ticket £5.00/ £4.00 available from the Festival Office on 028 9023 2403

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Friday May 9/ Saturday May 10
The Community Arts Forum 8.00pm


Alice Milliken’s granny came from Donegal to Belfast in the famine years. Laura McAteer goes to live there today for completely different reasons. In the intervening years we see how women’s lives have changed – their jobs, their roles, their places in society, their worries, their fears and their relationships.

Blue Flax is not another play about the troubles, yet they provide a backdrop and show the added stresses imposed on women as they struggle to hold the family together.

Using a minimum of props and with a fantastic soundtrack from each era, Blue Flax was a huge hit when it was performed as part of International Women’s Day in the Cathedral Quarter in March. Such was the demand that we have brought it back for 2 nights only.

By Kate Muldoon Directed by Jo Egan.

Ticket £5.00/ £4.00 available from the Festival Office on 028 9023 2403