
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.