LIVE BROADCAST- ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN 1972: VOICES FROM THE HEART OF THE TROUBLES

The Playhouse Theatre and Peacebuilding Academy presents

ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN 1972: VOICES FROM THE HEART OF THE TROUBLES 

The statistics for 1972- the worst year of the ‘Troubles’- are astonishing: almost 500 killings (nearly 100 in the month of July alone); 10,000 shootings, 2,000 explosions, and almost 5,000 people physically injured.

But statistics only take you so far, and they don’t take you inside the hearts of people who were there. 1972 was an extraordinary year- a year when it felt like anything could happen- but it was a year of lives as well as deaths. 

And here is an evening of voice, of people- gathered by the poet Damian Gorman- which carries inside stories of both.

Written by Damian Gorman. Directed by Kieran Griffiths.

This is the second play in a new programme of theatre to be both performed live and streamed around the world from our theatre stage. It will be broadcast live every night at 8pm until 19 September.

As part of the production, those who have lost loved ones in the Troubles, due to Covid-19, or in any circumstance, were invited to contribute to Anything Can Happen 1972.  They sent objects or photographs of significance or importance to them, to be placed on the empty chairs in our theatre. This is so that instead of absence, the chairs have something very significant and important on them, to be lit by theatre lights in an act echoing Seamus Heaney’s famous work Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication, in which he describes ‘a sunlit absence’.

Welcome all to #ComeWatch this live broadcast of the second play of our new #DigitalPlayhouse. 

Contains strong language

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