From The Camp to The Creggan

The premiere run of Brian Foster’s hilarious new play, From THE CAMP to THE CREGGAN in October 2013, received rave reviews from the critics, and standing ovations from huge audiences over each of its four night run.

And now it’s returning, in October 2014, to astonish and delight once again!!

‘Quite simply, Brian Foster has created another masterpiece’.

The action is set in Springtown Camp and Derry’s Guildhall back in 1963. Young radical socialist father of five, Harry Kelly, sick with his family’s impoverished living conditions, comes up with a unique plan to show up the ‘faceless men’ of Derry’s political establishment to the outside world. Communities across the city have been invited to enter a Christmas competition, to be held in the Guildhall, to find the best short nativity play. So Harry sits down and writes a play for the local children to perform.

‘The crowd practically had to scoop themselves off
the floor at the end from convulsing with laughter’.

But, with the eight-year-old children played by adult actors, Gerry Doherty, Carmel Mc Cafferty, Pat Lynch and Bill Waters, this will be a nativity play like no other. Add Seamas Heaney, Joanne O’Reilly and Shaunsy Coyle to the mix, and the scene is set for a night of politically/religiously incorrect, side-splitting laughter! And buckets of tears too, as Brian Foster once again gives us his unique take on Derry working class ‘life and death’ humour.

‘They’ll be talking about this play for years to come’.

NB: This play contains strong language throughout, and adopts an irreverent attitude towards sex, politics and religion. Please DO NOT come to be offended.