Agreement by Owen McCafferty at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast on the 29th March 2023
Agreement by Owen McCafferty at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast on the 29 th March 2023 The negotiations leading up to the Good Friday Agreement in Lyric Theatre's production of 'Agreement' Agreement is being produced to mark the 25 th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, a historic settlement of a period known as ‘the troubles’. There is a lot of material to work from but a great deal of it involves tedious, unending backroom dialogues, disputes, antagonisms, some of which are depicted in the play. That’s unpromising in terms of drama but Owen McCafferty does offer us the ingredients for a play which reaches into that lost period and extracts a sizeable portion of pathos and comedy. The director Charlotte Westenra portrays the characters and their conflicts through the lens of a reduced mise en scene and a sparsity of intrusive elements such as music which is present, however, as an electro-synth beat that intrudes subtly at the beginning and end of scenes. Richar