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Grenades

Part of Mayfesto 2011

Nuala Kelly takes no prisoners.  A tough nine-year-old living with her mother, brother and grandfather, she thinks the class bully is just a big baby, and that all the nuns are cranky old wrinkled up cronies. She loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones - just like her big brother, Oran. He's fifteen and thinks he's Casanova. Nuala thinks he's more like Jesus; she'd do anything for him. Read more …

But what she does one day for her brother, no-one could ever have imagined...

Set in a prison ten years later, Grenades is a compelling drama that has at its heart the bruised innocence of Nuala, who must re-live the events of her childhood and finally make sense of them all.


The critical consensus

At just 55 minutes long, the show packs an emotional and socio-political punch that can’t help but draw you into Nuala’s world. It's one that leaves you reflecting how war doesn’t just affect those on the front line, but everyone else around them as well, whether they've signed up to the cause or not.

Alan Chadwick, STV, 18/05/2019

There’s plenty to enjoy here, though, in the story’s bleak vividness; and a great deal to think about, for those who imagine that in the deepest sense, the Troubles are over.

***(*)(*)Joyce McMillan, 20/05/2011

Where and when?

Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Wednesday May 18, 2011, until Saturday May 21, 2011. More info: www.tron.co.uk

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