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The incredible cast of #belfastgirlscanada, directed by Wendy Bollard In March 2017  Belfast Girls  opens in Vancouver in Canada. This is the second international production of the play, which premiered in the USA last year to magnificent reviews. Belfast Girls , which is partly about the female experience of the Irish Famine and part allegory of the recent Irish banking crisis, was the Windy City Times Critics’ Pick in June 2015. Ruth Smerling of Theatreworld Magazine called it a “work of tremendous imagination” . Professor Regina Buccola, who writes the introduction to the published text of the play, refers to it as “a feminist materialist play in the tradition of Caryl Churchill’s Fen ”.  Belfast Girls was developed in 2012 at the National Theatre Studio when I was on attachment to the theatre and was then shortlisted for the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the 2014 BBC Tony Doyle Award and won the Galway Theatre Festival Playwriting ...

Hi there blog readers - it’s been far too long! I’ve been busy editing my novel -  and with writing the screenplay of BELFAST GIRLS. Hope to have good news to report on both fronts soon. I’ve also just had a short-ish play on in London (at the Southwark Playhouse) called TUSSY,   about the life of Eleanor Marx. This received some lovely reviews and I am currently researching the subject further so as to create a full-length play (and possibly a screenplay, too). Michael Davis of  Female Arts Magazine  said of the Southwark show ‘…my favourite play opened the second half of the evening... Tussy  by Jaki McCarrick (directed by Sharon Willems)…I would love to see a full-length version of this play.’ http://www.femalearts.com/node/2394 I had a wonderful cast for this piece too, with Jess Murphy (with whom I’d worked at the National when I was on attachment in 2012) resoundingly brilliant as Eleanor Marx and Mike Corsale excellent as the B...