Border play offers unique insight into ‘the Troubles’

An award-winning play about the experiences of a Garda officer and an RUC officer patrolling the Border at the height of the Irish conflict is being performed this week as part of Galway Theatre Festival.

Green and Blue, produced by radical Belfast theatre company Kabosh, is being staged in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre from this Thursday to Saturday, May 4-6, as part of a tour that’s also taking in London and Dublin.

Written by former IRA hunger striker turned writer Laurence McKeown, Green and Blue stars James Doran and Vincent Higgins, reprising their roles from the original production, which premiered at the 2016 Belfast International Arts Festival.

The play, which is based on real life interviews with police officers, is set in 1994, months before the IRA ceasefire. That’ s the same year Kabosh began telling stories about society in the North. At that time, the British Government were in secret peace talks with Irish Republicans, while John Hume was in discussions with Gerry Adams.

James Doran plays Garda officer Eddie O’Halloran, while Vincent Higgins is David McCabe, an RUC officer whose experience of patrolling the Border is very different from that of his Southern counterpart.

The pair recount their experiences, taking in the history of the conflict in Ireland, how they joined their respective organisations and the day-to-day life of working in a disputed territory.

For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.

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