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
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