Bog People

Thursday 20 September 2007

Saturday 27 October 2007

!5 venues in total- see attached tour schedule

!5 venues in total- see attached tour schedule

!5 venues in total- see attached tour schedule

!5 venues in total- see attached tour schedule

Event

Big Telly Theatre Company is delighted to announce its Official Twentieth Birthday Production - Bog People

Imagine that the ground beneath our feet is haunted, and that layer upon layer hides a secret of lives already lived…. Inspired by Seamus Heaney’s Bog Poems, Bog People is a haunting, evocative sequence of stories about love, violence, mystery and memory, written by Lucy Caldwell, Nicola McCartney and Francis Turnly with music composed by Neil Martin.

Linked by landscape, the stories are set on a particularly significant piece of Bogland over several different time periods, and the audience becomes detective, piecing together the fragments of the past. Don’t miss this unique theatrical experience bringing together Big Telly’s reputation for dynamic, contemporary Irish Classics, The Playboy of the Western World, The Country Boy with its highly original and accessible approach to new work The Little Mermaid so far seen by 30,000 people in swimming pools across the world.

“ Portstewart’s Big Telly, on their 20th anniversary, are in a league of their own under truly innovative director Zoë Seaton”. Ulster Tatler, February 2007

“sends the audience out into the night beaming with satisfaction”
The Irish Times, The Country Boy, February 2007

“spellbinding spectacle…a world-class production by this innovative, ambitious and risk-taking local company.” Belfast Telegraph, The Little Mermaid, November 2006

“the extraordinary theatrical invention for which Big Telly is known makes for yet another highly interesting experience.” Daily Ireland, The Picture of Dorian Gray, February 2006

“Big Telly have established a fine reputation for original and quirky interpretations of Irish Classics in the last couple of years and right from the start, they caught the audience off guard.” Irish Theatre Magazine, Synge Double Bill, 2005

“The award-winning theatre company has gone from strength to strength...showcasing the very best of Ulster inventiveness and talent.” News Letter, The Little Mermaid, Irish & International Tour, 2005

“A high-tech hit… a show [that] demonstrates it can harness the attention of tomorrow’s theatregoers as well as today’s. And that’s a giant step.” Belfast Telegraph, McCool XXL, March 2002