Sunday April 7, 2019 at 2 PM

NOTE change of venue -  Unitarian Church of Lincoln, 6300 A Street

Directed by Barb Keating

cast:   DOLLY................Deb Miller

           VI.......................Barbara Barron

           ROSE................Constance Howard

           JANET...............Rachele Stoops

           BELLE...............Sahmia Smith

          JACK..................Mark Mesarch

          DAVY (et al).......Tim Peglow

The Belle of Belfast City is a story of loyalty, both political and familial. At its centre is Dolly, once a music-hall star, whose ballads and memories weave through the play recalling the past. Vi, the elder of her daughters, stayed with her in Belfast, while the younger Rose has travelled all over the world as a journalist. She returns, bringing with her for the first time her mixed-race and illegitimate daughter Belle, who is named for her grandmother’s stage name. The extended family also includes the Protestant Loyalist fundamentalist Jack, and his sister Janet.

Against the background of protests about the Anglo-Irish Agreement, the play confronts different models of Loyalism and allegiance, a rich and honest lament.

The Belle of Belfast City was first produced in 1989 by the Lyric Players Theatre in Belfast.