Adrian Dunbar returns to the Belfast stage in Conor McPherson’s award-winning The Night Alive. Adrian Dunbar (Line of Duty, Brendan at the Chelsea) makes a welcome return to the Lyric in October when Conor McPherson’s new play The Night Alive has its Northern Irish premiere. Set in Dublin, the play tells the story of Tommy (Dunbar), a middle-aged man, just about getting by. He’s renting a run-down room in his Uncle Maurice’s house, keeping his ex-wife and kids at arm’s length and rolling from one get-rich-quick scheme to the other with his friend, Doc.
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Kate Stanley-Brennan, Adrian Dunbar and Laurence Kinlan in action in The Night Alive opening in the Lyric from 6th October. [/caption]
Then one night he comes to the aid of Aimee, who’s not had it easy herself, struggling through life the only way she knows how. Their past won’t let go easily. But together there’s a glimmer of hope that they could make something more of their lives. Something extraordinary. Perhaps. With inimitable warmth, style and craft, The Night Alive deftly mines the humanity to be found in the most unlikely of situations. Written and directed by Conor McPherson (The Weir, The Seafarer), The Night Alive also stars Frank Grimes, Laurence Kinlan, Ian-Lloyd Anderson and Kate Stanley Brennan. It is a co-production between the Lyric Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival, and opened this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival at the Gaiety Theatre. Lyric Theatre Executive Producer Jimmy Fay said: “The Night Alive is an extraordinary play that manages to be funny, shocking, contemporary and moving, and the reaction from audiences in Dublin has been amazing. I’m really excited to bring it to Belfast for the first time, and I think our Lyric audiences are going to be blown away by the play”. The Night Alive is on the Danske Bank Stage of the Lyric Theatre from October 6-31, and the performance on October 9 also opens the 2015 Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival.
*** Cast Tommy – Adrian Dunbar Maurice – Frank Grimes Doc – Laurence Kinlan Kenneth – Ian-Lloyd Anderson Aimee – Kate Stanley Brennan Creative Team Writer & Director Conor McPherson Set & Costume Designer Alyson Cummins Lighting Designer Zia Holly Sound Designer Gregory Clarke Fight Director Donal O’Farrell Design Assistant Katie Davenport Performance dates and times 6-31 October 2015 Tuesday – Saturday 7.45pm Saturday and Sunday matinees 2.30pm Tickets from £10 The original production of The Night Alive was performed at the Donmar Warehouse in London in 2013, and it has also been produced at the Atlantic Theatre in New York, where it won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play (it also received a Best Play nomination from the Laurence Olivier Awards).
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