Pride of the Shore is the latest project from writer Gary Mitchell and is at The MAC Belfast from June 12 to 23
A writer from Belfast is hoping his new play will help explore life and culture within the working class Protestant communities of North Belfast . Pride of the Shore focuses on the compelling story of people in the inner-city communities of Tiger's Bay, York Road, and Shore Road .
Speaking to Belfast Live, Gary said: "Everyone opened up so quickly, it ended up almost impossible to narrow it all down to one play, it could literally be a TV show running for years. "But they are presented at a very young age with this idea that they are British, they are under attack, and they have an enemy a few feet away from them. They grew up believing this because our of our parents and older members of our family, you're brought up this way, then to see it diminished and hated and basically under siege all the time. It has to cause you to think that not only do you hate that, but you start to hate yourself and think, well, the whole world must be right.
"Then you have stories about the human spirit, that when you would ever see a person out in the street you would bring them to your house and give them what little food you had. But then you have a generation who grew up and let's say they're a little bit more affluent, they have mobile phones, the world is completely transformed, the world is so small. That's the teenagers.
"It's hilarious and you find yourself laughing at really terrible things. I wanted to include that as I really wanted the play to represent them, as on day one of meeting everyone, they were so paranoid and suspicious. They were throwing accusations around like I was there to make them look bad, as they said everybody tries to make them look bad. But I wanted them to know I was there to tell their story.
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