SINNERS

SPRING/SUMMER AT THE LYRIC

The Habsburg Tragedies

10 APR

The Belfast Ensemble presents a double of cutting edge music theatre firsts. Written by award-winning composer/playwright Conor Mitchell and with live chamber orchestra, these unique performances bring Europe’s most misremembered sisters to life. Starring Stella McCusker (Game of Thrones), Abigail McGibbon (Best Supporting Actor, Irish Times Theatre Awards), and Jo Donnelly (Chronicles of Long Kesh).

ANTHONY TONER

23 APR

Anthony Toner makes his solo debut on the Lyric Theatre stage to celebrate the release of his seventh album. This new collection, Ink, finds the Belfast-based songwriter in top form on a series of stripped back, acoustic-based songs dealing with the big themes of love, loss and happiness. He’ll be joined by special guests Eilidh Patterson, Ciaran Lavery and John McCullough.

Have I No Mouth

27 APR

A real-life mother and son take a brave, unflinching look at their past and attempt to piece together the truth in the aftermath of a family tragedy. Breaking all theatrical conventions, Brokentalkers’ Feidlim Cannon and his mother Ann are joined onstage by their Dublin-based psychotherapist Erich Keller who guides them through an exploration.

SINNERS

6 MAY - 3 JUNE

An isolated farming community comes under the spell of the charismatic yet mysterious preacher, Pastor O’Hare. He’s ofering redemption – but at what price? An uproarious satire on religion, family and greed from the wicked pen of Marie Jones, loosely based on Moliere’s Tartufe

A Time To Speak

2 - 7MAY

Sam McCready’s adaptation of Helen Lewis’ memoirs returns to us this season. Helen Lewis, dancer and choreographer needs little introduction to Ulster audiences. After the publication of her memoir A Time to Speak, which has become a classic of Holocaust literature, she visited schools, clubs and organisations throughout the Province, sharing her remarkable story of courage and survival.

THE BLUE BOY OF GLENMORE

9-14 MAY

Brassneck Theatre Company present this haunting and sensational dark comedy. Jemmy John is a tortured soul who shares his parents’ cottage with his sister Colleen. With the help of a local bachelor Paudie Rua, Colleen is determined to escape Glenmore for the chance at a better life... but her brother is having none of it!

Madame Geneva

18 MAY - 27 MAY

Macha productions presents a new play by Jo Egan with composition by Garth McConaghie. It tells of a ferociously exciting time in the birth of western history when the economic structure of Capitalism falls into its metier feeding massive trade expansion and soaring wealth.

In The Window

31ST MAY - 4TH JUNE

Nuala McKeever returns with her internationally-acclaimed dark comedy. Life hasn’t turned out the way Margaret dreamed. So tonight, she’s got a date with a bottle of fizz and a bowl of pink pills...But her romance with death is rudely interrupted by an intruder, a nosy neighbour and a policeman – a tall, handsome policeman.

THE GRUFFALO

2 - 6 AUG

A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories’ magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Schefer. Songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 and up and their grown-ups, in the much-loved show that’s toured Britain and the world!