Derry Boys
Author(s):
Niall McCarthy
Company:
Iona Bremner Productions and Theatre503
Born and raised in Derry, Paddy and Mick have always dreamed of something more. But when they’re torn apart as children and later reunited as adults in London, they discover just how far they’ve grown in different directions—and how radically different their visions for the future have become.
As the play unfolds, the boys’ lives gradually diverge, shaped by class, education and personal choices, punctuated with moments of camaraderie and growing tension, before reconnecting in adulthood under very different circumstances.
Although reunited physically, the emotional and ideological distance between them reveals just how far they’ve drifted from one another.