Lyric Theatre Belfast
From 1988-1991, Roland Jaquarello was Artistic Director of The Lyric Theatre Belfast. During his tenure, four new plays by Robin Glendinning, Christina Reid, John McLelland and Robert Ellison were produced. There was also the premiere of a ‘glasnost’ play Threshold by Alexei Dudarev which was directed and designed by a visiting Belarussian team. During this time, The Lyric Theatre also visited The Glasgow Mayfest with his production of Sam Thompson's Over The Bridge, a play about sectarianism in the Belfast shipyards. They also visited The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo, Norway with Ghosts and instigated a new Summer Festival presenting work by international writers such as Václav Havel and the Argentinian playwright Eduardo Pavlovsky. Innovative classical revivals of Sean O’ Casey’s ‘The Plough And The Stars’, Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Importance Of Being Earnest’ with Conleth Hill as Algernon and J. M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy Of The Western World’ were also produced. However at the centre of his progressive artistic leadership were his own ambitious productions of three American classics: After the Fall (play) by Arthur Miller, with Tim Woodward and Claire Hackett giving memorable performances in the leading roles, The Iceman Cometh with Peter Marinker as a fine Hickey and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with strong performances from Sara Stewart as Maggie and Patrick O'Kane as Brick.
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