Lyric Theatre, Belfast: More than a century ago, socialist activist and Labour organiser James Larkin led a large-scale strike on the Belfast docks. This landmark event provides the framework for John Ervine's rarely performed play, which premiered in 1911, not in the city of its birth but down the road at Dublin's Abbey Theatre in pre-partition Ireland. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage at 06:30AM on February 1, 2013