New play 'celebrates modern Belfast'

27 April 2009 -

Darragh Carville's new play This Other City will be showing at the Baby Grand studio of Belfast Opera House next month.

Theatre fans looking for events in Northern Ireland will be able to see a modern tale of Belfast, which chronicles the dramatic breakdown of the marriage of two young professionals living in the capital.

Earlier this month, Carville told the Guardian that stories about the modern development of Northern Ireland are not being told.

"I just thought that the world of the new city, of swanky apartment blocks, of coffee shops and the new culture was not being reflected in terms of theatre and film," he said.

Carville went on to say that the theatre audience in Belfast is generally middle-class, liberal and "arty" but rarely see their own lives reflected on the stage.

In 1997, Carville won the Stewart Parker Award for best Irish debut play for Language Roulette.