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An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast.
Development. Hotels, spas, Nandos, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers.
A group of construction workers is building an extension to the Peace Wall that separates Them-ens from Us-ens. When Polish worker Yuris daughter starts having serious problems with her boyfriend, they rally round in support. But good intentions can easily go too far...
Shibboleth premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, as part of the 2015 Dublin Theatre Festival
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Stacey Gregg
SHIBBOLETH
NICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Shibboleth was co-commissioned by the Abbey Theatre and the Goethe-Institut, and first performed during the Dublin Theatre Festival on the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on 7 October 2015. The cast was as follows:
YURI | Piotr Baumann |
COREY | Rhys Dunlop |
DARREN | Charlie Farrell |
AGNIESZKA | Sophie Harkness |
STUARTY | Vincent Higgins |
ALAN | Andy Kellegher |
MO | Conor MacNeill |
COUNCILLOR | Louise Mathews |
DARREN | Jake OLoughlin |
RUBY | Kerri Quinn |
THE WALL | Cara Robinson |
Director | Hamish Pirie |
Set and Lighting Designer | Paul Keogan |
Costume Designer | Saileg OHalloran |
Composer and Musical Director | James Fortune |
Sound Designer | Derek Conaghy |
Movement Director | Fleur Darkin |
Assistant Director | Eoghan Carrick |
Voice Director | Andrea Ainsworth |
shibboleth
noun
a custom, principle, or belief distinguishing a particular class or group of people, especially a long-standing one regarded as outmoded or no longer important.
When you no longer have an enemy
you find it in the mirror.
Heiner Mller
Characters
ALAN
COREY
STUARTY
MO
YURI
RUBY
DARREN, ten
AGNIESZKA, seventeen
COUNCILLOR
THE WALL
OBAMA
MA
CHILD
This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.
Notes
Belfast, Northern Ireland. Present.
A ( / ) denotes interruption.
A ( ) denotes being cut off.
Non-italicised words in brackets may be an aside, or spoken in a slightly Other dimension.
The collective voice of the brickies is front-footed and jokey.
The pace is fast, energetic, unsentimental.
The brickies as chorus could be any size.
The play has an aural intonation that invites music or underscoring.
It may be that choreography is used.
It may be that the cast is onstage for the duration.
In Scene Seven dispense with dialogue in favour of a closed code of ellipses or fragment where possible. Its also important that the councillor is of the same world as the brickies, regardless of whether she has since done well for herself. She has good intentions.
The staging of the wall is an invitation. It may be that the wall exerts influence over the world of the play. It may be that the wall is manifested in one being, or in all, or in none; that its growls and voices grow throughout; that it slouches towards Belfast to be born.
We should see the mechanisms of production.
Prelude
Night.
An empty worksite. Foundations for an extension to a wall. We distantly hear the voice of the President of the United States of America.
[Full transcript found at http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov]
OBAMA | We need you to get this right. And whats more, you set an example for those who seek a peace of their own. Because beyond these shores, right now, in scattered corners of the world, there are people living in the grip of conflict ethnic conflict, religious conflict, tribal conflicts and they know something better is out there. And theyre groping to find a way to discover how to move beyond the heavy hand of history, to put aside the violence. Theyre studying what youre doing. And theyre wondering, perhaps if Northern Ireland can achieve peace, we can, too. Youre their blueprint to follow. Youre their proof of what is possible because hope is contagious. Theyre watching to see what you do next. |
OBAMA is interrupted by a noise. The WALL sings. | |
A deep, timeless hum. A magnificent voice of ages, polyglot, from the cosmos. | |
(Fading away.) But the fact that so far weve only got a gate open and the wall is still up means theres more work to do. | |
WALL | BUILD ME |
BUILD ME | |
BUILD ME |
One
Early morning. Birds tweet.
The pace is rapid, the chaos that greets any morning in a busy household. Bits of uniform and lunch boxes circulate throughout.
ALAN dressed for the worksite, stands at the bottom of the stairs.
ALAN | Son. |
Darren. | |
Darren. | |
DARREN. | |
DARREN appears at the top of the stairs. | |
DARREN | Wha? |
ALAN | Is yer ma not outta the bathroom yet? |
DARREN | Whatre ya buildin today Dad? |
ALAN | Buildin a wall. |
DARREN | What kinda wall? |
ALAN | A Peace Wall. |
DARREN | Whats a Peace Wall? |
ALAN | Its a big twelve-foot-high wall between Themens and Usens, to keep the peace. |
DARREN | Does it? |
ALAN | Keep the peace? I dont know. |
DARREN | How does it do it? |
ALAN | Its just a wall son |
DARREN | How do ya build a wall? |
ALAN | With bricks is yer mammy not out yet? Give her a shout there |
DARREN | MAMMY DADDY WANTS THE TOILET. |
RUBY | (Off, indignant.) Darren! |
DARREN | Wha? |
ALAN | Wha? |
DARREN | Dunno. So why do ya have to build a Peace Wall again? |
ALAN | Cos once upon a time there was a war and Themens and Usens couldnt get on, so they built these walls to keep Usens safe. |
DARREN | Is there still a war? |
ALAN | No son, been peace for twenty-odd years, twice your lifetime. |
DARREN | Thats class. |
ALAN | Give yer ma another shout there Im bustin |
DARREN | So if theres no war whyre youse buildin the wall? |
ALA | Give her a shout |
DARREN | Whats a Peace Wall do when theres no war? |
ALAN | I dunno, suppose people like the idea of them. They paint them up dead nice, with murals about all the peace were havin. They bring the tourists in. |
DARREN | How many Peace Walls are there? |
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