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Book SynopsisDavid Ireland trained as an actor at the RSAMD (now Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) in Glasgow. He was Playwright-in-Residence at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast from 2011-12. His first play
What the Animals Say was produced at Òran Mór in Glasgow and transferred to the Belfast Festival. His other plays include:
Everything Between Us, which won the Meyer-Whitworth Award and the Stewart Parker BBC Award;
The End of Hope, The End of Desire (Òran Mór),
Half a Glass of Water (Field Day)
Yes So I Said Yes (Ransom Productions),
Can't Forget About You (Lyric, Belfast),
Most Favoured (Traverse/ Òran Mór),
The Hen Night (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland),
Summertime (Tinderbox),
I Promise You Sex and Violence (Northern Stage),
Blood Wedding (Dundee Rep Ensemble/Graeae) and
Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court/Abbey Theatre, Dublin).
Trade ReviewThis insightful playwright avoids a neat emotional resolution. He explores the impact of decades of violence and hatred and leaves his characters suspended [Four stars] * Guardian review of 'Everything Between Us' *
The play is so funny - wickedly, irresponsibly, cruelly funny - you might write it off as juvenile in the first five minutes. By its conclusion, though, it seems like one of the most slyly mature peices about conflict in 'post conflict' Northern Ireland yet written. How can we move forward, after everything between us? Not by exorcising the truth, and our destructive tendencies, but by learning to live with them. [Four stars] * Irish Times review of 'Everything Between Us' *
