The Millennium Forum Derry: Carthaginians

By Frank McGuinness. Directed by Adrian Dunbar.

Frank McGuinness’ Carthaginians has often been acknowledged as one of the few enduring plays to have emerged from ‘The Troubles’.

An elegy for Bloody Sunday in Derry, it is the survival of tragedy, of intense grief which becomes the unspoken subject through the personal journeys of three women and three men who camp out in a graveyard awaiting the rise of the dead.

This production commemorates the 40th anniversary of Bloody Sunday and, appropriately within the theme of Carthaginians celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Millennium Forum.

“Hauntingly coherent beauty and of sadness and of a deep defiant joy.” The Financial Times

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