FARM GIRL / SCENES FROM ’THE SUITCASE'
Feb 2nd 8pm Members Event - Public Welcome
A specially packaged double-header for Holocaust Memorial Day at Studio 1A in Bangor, presented by Bangor Drama Club.
Jane Coyle will read her highly-acclaimed dramatic monologue Farm Girl. The piece is inspired by experiences of life on the farm in the County Down coastal town of Millisle, where a number of Jewish people found friendship, romance and safe haven before and during World War II. The voice of the monologue is that of a young woman, whose grandmother came to Northern Ireland from her home in Vienna, via the Kindertransport. The reading is punctuated by musical inserts from Dvorak’s opera Rusalka.
Members of Bangor Drama Club will read scenes from Jane Coyle’s award-winning play The Suitcase, which is to receive its European premiere in Vienna in February 2023. The storyline was inspired by the discovery of a small suitcase in the city’s Jewish Museum. On it was written the name and address of a woman … from Berlin. This intriguing conundrum has has been relocated to Belfast, where a mother and daughter are clearing out the home of their father/grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. They come across a suitcase containing poignant evidence of their dark family history. The play was premiered at the 2017 Belfast International Festival, where it won the Audience Award. It toured Northern Ireland in 2019, including three sell-out performances at Studio 1A.
Feb 2nd 8pm Members Event - Public Welcome
A specially packaged double-header for Holocaust Memorial Day at Studio 1A in Bangor, presented by Bangor Drama Club.
Jane Coyle will read her highly-acclaimed dramatic monologue Farm Girl. The piece is inspired by experiences of life on the farm in the County Down coastal town of Millisle, where a number of Jewish people found friendship, romance and safe haven before and during World War II. The voice of the monologue is that of a young woman, whose grandmother came to Northern Ireland from her home in Vienna, via the Kindertransport. The reading is punctuated by musical inserts from Dvorak’s opera Rusalka.
Members of Bangor Drama Club will read scenes from Jane Coyle’s award-winning play The Suitcase, which is to receive its European premiere in Vienna in February 2023. The storyline was inspired by the discovery of a small suitcase in the city’s Jewish Museum. On it was written the name and address of a woman … from Berlin. This intriguing conundrum has has been relocated to Belfast, where a mother and daughter are clearing out the home of their father/grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. They come across a suitcase containing poignant evidence of their dark family history. The play was premiered at the 2017 Belfast International Festival, where it won the Audience Award. It toured Northern Ireland in 2019, including three sell-out performances at Studio 1A.
