CAN'T FORGET ABOUT YOU

Can't Forget About You
By David Ireland
Directed by Conleth Hill
A Lyric Theatre Production

WORLD PREMIERE

25 year-old East Belfast man Stevie meets 49 year-old Glaswegian widow Martha while recovering from a painful breakup with his ex-girlfriend. Stevie and Martha are immediately attracted to each other and end up in bed together. Although their relationship is based entirely upon sexual attraction, they find themselves falling in love. This challenges the expectations of Stevie’s conservative Christian mother and his ultra-unionist, Ulster-Scots-speaking sister who work hard to break the pair up. Stevie and Martha must decide if their relationship has a real future and if they can both overcome the pain of their heartbroken pasts.

While primarily a very funny comedy, Can’t Forget About You touches on deeper themes such as grief, loss, sexual mores, cultural identity, sectarianism and the question of how Northern Ireland moves on from the politics of the past and faces the future.

Can’t Forget About You is the first play written for the Lyric by former Playwright-in-Residence David Ireland, one of Northern Ireland’s hottest young writing talents. David is currently under commission to the National Theatre of Scotland, Tinderbox and the Abbey Theatre and is also adapting his play What the Animals Say into a television series for the BBC.

AGE GUIDANCE 18+
CONTAINS SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE, BAD LANGUAGE AND SOME ULSTER-SCOTS

Presented as part of the Lyric’s Tales of the City season, four plays inspired by Belfast. See also Love, Billy, and Weddins, Weeins and Wakes.

Captioned Performance Tue 11 June 8.00pm
Audio-Described Performance Thu 13 June 8.00pm