by Owen McCafferty
22 April –20 May, 2012 | The MAC
Reviewed by Jane Coyle on 26 April
Over the past month or so, there have been enough Titanic-related events in and around Belfast to sink a ship. An impressive amount of new work has been commissioned, including two site specific pieces by Kabosh, a play for the Lyric Theatre, a musical and a requiem.
It is a sign of Owen McCafferty’s stature as a playwright that he can step away so effectively from his usual muscular, Belfast vernacular-driven narrative style to assume here a quasi-curatorial role, sifting through almost 100 witness statements, gathered during the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, and crafting from them an elegant, absorbing piece of verbatim theatre. read complete review