Productions

The Parker Project presents Spokesong and Pentecost in repertoire to give a key insight into playwright Stewart Parker’s work, and to celebrate his fascination with Belfast, the place of his birth.

How would you feel if you discovered that your life, your identity and the content of your memory were based on a trick of the mind, a powerful illusion, a dream? How would you feel if you learned that your future was being determined by political manipulation, paranoid superstition and the capricious swings of a volatile personality?

When Daniel walks up to shop assistant Cathy and tells her he wants to buy a bra – for himself – it’s their first step in a passionate affair. Meanwhile, their respective partners, Kay and Paul, are having sex together during lunch. But if everyone is getting what they want, why is no-one happy? Kay’s friend Angela thinks she has all the answers – but does she?

Through the course of seventeen distinct but interconnected scenarios, a group of unnamed characters try to piece together the identity of the mysterious Anne. Martin Crimp’s 1997 play brings us on a whistle-stop journey through the emotional and political landscapes of our time, taking in art, surveillance, pornography, terrorism, genocide and globalisation along the way. 

A great drama that speaks to troubled times, Don Carlos explores the conflict and compromise between the private impulses of individual freedom and the public duties of power.

As dark autumn closes in, a man and a woman meet in a graveyard and reignite a reckless affair. Nearby his parents await the burial of a loved-one. But has he not already abandoned his family? Has she not always been alone? And what responsibility do they really owe to the living?

World Premiere

Blockheaded Tommy is trying to raise the £2,000 he owes the local UDA lords, while his glammed-up sister Leanne compulsively cleans the flat but never goes out. Davey, a new hard man on the block, insinuates himself into their lives.

Shakespeare’s most sparkling and controversial comedy reimagined in wheeler-dealer contemporary rural Ireland.

World Premiere

“One day we’ll be old. We’ll watch TV all day and we won’t understand the currency. We’ll stop young people on the street and ask them why they’re dressed in their underwear. We’ll forget what we had for lunch.. but we’ll remember this.”

World Premiere

Hannah Tewkley is torn between her work with the city’s poor and her husband’s prospering business – a string of oriental teahouses. Their guests, an English philanthropist and an African American are tainted by the horrors of America’s deep south. The visit begins with the best of intentions; but a collision is unavoidable.