By: Helen Edmundson
By: Helen Edmundson
Directed by: Muriel Romanes
A powerful love story, set in a small Irish farming community against the epic backdrop of Oliver Cromwell’s ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Ireland, The Clearing has tremendous modern resonance and explores our sense of national identity and humanity.
Set in 1652, The Clearing is set against the implementation of England’s most vicious design to solve its “Irish Question” by the eradication of the entire Irish Nation.
"Edmundson’s writing is passionate, poetic and muscular… she is doing for 17th century Anglo-Irish history what Arthur Miller did for 17th century New England history in The Crucible... The result is gripping, the story is powerfully told."
by Sunday Times
"This is a hugely impressive ensemble production of an important play which should be seen at all costs"
by The Scotsman
First produced by the Bush Theatre, London, in 1993 The Clearing won the John Whiting Award and the Time Out Theatre Award. Stellar Quines was awarded funding by the Scottish Arts Council and Barclays Bank Stage Partners to remount its successful 1998 production, taking it to a wider audience. In 1999 The Clearing toured Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Liverpool – the first time Stellar Quines toured outside Scotland.
19 – 22 March 1998
26 March 1998
28 March 1998
6 April 1998
7 April 1998
8 April 1998
9 April 1998
10 April 1998
11 April 1998
13 April 1998
14 April 1998
15 April 1998
17 April 1998
18 April 1998
21 – 22 April 1998
24 – 25 April 1998
16 – 25 September 1999
28 September – 2 October 1999
8 – 23 October 1999
2 – 6 October 1999