STEWART PARKER DAY
	Saturday April 30 | White’s Tavern | 2.00pm

Born in Belfast in 1941,Stewart Parker created a breathtaking body of work containing stageplays, screenplays, journalism and criticsm all imbued with an ironic wit which could only have come out of Belfast.

In this festival special event, we look at two of Parker’s most celebrated plays made for television;

IRIS IN THE TRAFFIC, RUBY IN THE RAIN
Stewart Parker’s play is set in Belfast on a wintry day. Ruby has a cold, & is caught in the rain. Iris is looking for work & feeling lost in the traffic. With Frances Tomelty as Ruby, includes rare footage of Stiff Little Fingers performing 2 songs live in a Belfast club.

CATCHPENNY TWIST
The first televised work of Stewart Parker, a comedy with music about 2 men who want to write the next Irish winner for the Eurovision song contest.

Followed by a postscreening discussion.

Stewart Parker was a playwright whose sense of history and elegance of wit and feeling were unusual in British and Irish Theatre” Observer

Tickets £4.00 available from Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 90246609

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