A British army family are posted to Belfast. The year is 1966, three years before the troubles were officially to begin. However, the seeds are beginning to take root. An autobiographical play, Belfast examines a family tottering on the edge of an abyss that was to split the six counties in the north of Ireland for decades after. Belfast was first produced by the Elephant Theatre in 1988 with a second production in 1990.

Press Comments:

"John Dunne's sensitive squint at the Ulster legacy adapts well to the stage. What's impressive about the rapid stucco of tense, bite-sized scenes is that they are elequently counter-pointed by a commitment to character development." Time Out

"A sharply realistic play still willing to speak for love, however, guarded, as the central human value." City Limits

"Fantastically gripping." What's On

***Belfast was a Time Out Critic's Choice***