Award winning novelist and screenwriter Colin Bateman’s second stage play asks the question, can forgiveness overcome the want for revenge in 21st century Northern Ireland.
“What are we to make of the men of violence whose time has been and gone, and who have settled into both civil and civilian life? Is there any reason at all to suppose that their capacity for murder has somehow drained away, or will it always be there, like a lining of grease and fat lurking in their mental plumbing?”
Commissioned as a legacy project for Derry Londonderry’s 2013 UK City of Culture, this powerful and captivating play is laced with the blackest of humour, and received a hugely successful premiere at The Playhouse in April 2016.
What the critics said:
“..an exceptional piece of theatre that will stay with the audience long after the house lights have come back up and the seats have emptied….” Derry Journal
“a raw, powerful and no-holds-barred journey through the deepest, darkest emotions we have all…Bag for Life will stir the darkest recesses of the Northern Irish soul” The Irish News
“a play which transcends political ideologies or aspirations, class territories or clan warfare. Addy delivers a tour-de-force in her eighty minute monologue” Culture NI
