Derek Lord
More peaceful than it was, but Ulster’s still a pretty scary place
WELL, I’m back in one piece from my travels round the north of Ireland with a stage play, despite the theatre company manager’s best efforts to terminate my existence with her erratic driving, and my own tendency to wander into areas of Belfast that would deter a regiment of Gurkhas.
Published: 19/03/2010
Reality conquers fantasy at this year’s Oscars
SO, the Oscars have come and gone for another 12 months. Every year I swear I am going to give Hollywood’s annual orgy of back-slapping and self congratulation a miss.
Published: 12/03/2010
Life on the road is theatrical in more ways than one
AS I WAS being bounced around in the back seat of a people carrier in the dead of night on a winding country road in County Monaghan earlier this week, I had occasion to reflect on the circular nature of life.
Published: 05/03/2010
Taking culture on the road in the Ulster counties
THE theatre tour of northern Ireland on which I am engaged currently continues apace. I used the small “n” in northern because we are taking our play to some of the Ulster counties which remained within the Irish Republic at the time of partition. To have used a capital “n”, as in Northern Ireland, would have referred to the political entity rather than the geographical and historic one.
Published: 26/02/2010
