'Undoubtedly, we could have been given just another potted history like what we were all taught in school but you’ll never find this play on any history GCSE syllabus.'
If there’s one thing we’re good at in this wee country it’s being able to laugh at ourselves even through the worst of times and it’s this dark sense of humour which plays out so well in The History of The Troubles .
It would have been easy for the play to get bogged down in the darkness of Gerry’s struggle to lead an ordinary life dodging the bombs and bullets and dealing with the heartache of loss. Then there is Grimes’s Fireball who runs the incinerator at the RVH. An inspired character who brings much of the comedy value to the play and often had the audience in roars of laughter.
Not too many plays could get away with such a sparse stage design so it is a testament to the performances of Grimes, McKee and Maguire that the lack of props really didn’t matter.
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