塞浦路斯大道
Douban
Cyprus Avenue
overview
“Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a new-born baby and successfully infiltrated my family home.”
Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams.
His family keep telling him to stop living in the past and fighting old battles that nobody cares about anymore but his cultural heritage is under siege. He must act.
The story of one man struggling with the past and terrified of the future.
“Without prejudice we’re nothing! If we don’t discriminate, we don’t survive!”
Cyprus Avenue is an Abbey Theatre Commission and opened at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin prior to its Royal Court Theatre run. The Abbey Theatre was founded as Ireland’s national theatre, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904 “to bring upon the stage the deeper emotions of Ireland”. Although written more than a hundred years ago, this is still the kernel of what constitutes the artistic imperative for the Abbey Theatre today. The Abbey produces an annual programme of diverse, engaging, innovative Irish and international theatre and invests in and promotes new Irish writers and artists. They do this by placing the writer and theatre-maker at the heart of all they do, commissioning and producing exciting new work and creating discourse and debate on the political, cultural and social issues of the day. Abbey Theatre’s aim is to present great theatre art in a national context so that the stories told on stage have a resonance with artists and audiences alike.