OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Laurence McKeown 

• Setting

  A Belfast Black Taxi travelling up the Falls and down the Shankill road.

• Synopsis

  Back in Belfast after spending several decades in London, Rosie feels disconnected from the city she once knew so well. She meets taxi-driver Bill, and over the course of their journey together each reveals much about the history of West Belfast and their own attitudes to it.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  1

• Female

  1

• Total

  2

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  07 May 2009

• Producer

  Produced by Kabosh

• Venue Notes

  This site-specific play was performed to necessarily small groups of audience members in a fully functioning Black Taxi. The taxi departed from the West Belfast Taxi Association depot, Castle Street.

• Irish Premiere Notes

  'Two Roads West' was first performed as part of the Cathederal Quarter Arts Festival. It was revived some months later for the West Belfast Féile an Phobail.

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from company printed material.