Time and Brexit have blurred the old, hard lines on the border Susan McKay
Oct 15, 2021
3 minutes
Illustration Eleanor Shakespeare
powerful new play has just opened at Belfast’s Lyric theatre. The Border Game, by Michael Patrick and Oisín Kearney, is a fractured love story and a sharp political satire about the legacy of partition. Its setting is an abandoned customs hut on boggy ground beside a broken barbed-wire fence that marks the border between Northern Ireland, where Henry lives, and the Republic, where Sinead lives. The play is moving, honourable, and just a little bit messy. But somehow this rawness at the edges seems
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