ONE PARA
The New Theatre
“Repeat after me…. I came under hostile fire… I fired
at the target... to protect my own life and the lives of my comrades…”
A gripping new play which offers us an unseen perspective on the events of Bloody Sunday and their aftermath, staged to coincide with the 50th anniversary.
Set mostly in real time during one of the most significant events of the Troubles, ONE PARA tells the tale of a young paratrooper, Scarriff, on that fateful day in the Bogside in Derry in January 1972. The play offers us and intriguing insight from both the British and Irish army’s perspective; a contrasting glimpse of the contemporary procedures and processes of both armies.
The history of those who deserted the British Army to join the Irish Army during the course of the 20th century is a fascinating one, and this play offers us a dramatic snapshot based around the life of one soldier with an interesting, hybrid background.
Doors: 14:00
