Lisburn playwright brings new show home to the Island

The production is presented by Ransom Productions and Paines Plough.

Leading new writing powerhouse Paines Plough has been asking playwrights from across the UK to create pieces about the places where they grew up. These plays will be performed by the writers themselves in unique one-off performances from Cardiff to Coventry, Nottingham to Newcastle, and Liverpool to Lisburn.

Come To Where I'm From will result in a theatrical tapestry of the UK, woven by writers asking if home really is where the heart is.

Featured Irish writers include local Lisburn writer Richard Dormer, Stacey Gregg, David Ireland, Rosemary Jenkinson and Martin Lynch.

Acclaimed actor and director Richard (Hurricane, This Piece of Earth, The Half, and The Gentleman's Tea-Drinking Society) is Ransom Production's writer in residence. The Gentleman's Tea-Drinking Society was nominated as best new play for 2010 Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Huge talents, David (Arguments for Terrorism) & Rosemary (The Winners) have collaborated with Ransom in the past. David's most recent play, Everything Between Us, a co-production between Tinderbox Theatre Company in Belfast and Solas Nua of Washington DC, is currently touring the United States before playing Belfast in October 2010.

Rosemary is a recipient of an Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Artist Award and was the Belfast finalist of '24 Degrees', a new initiative by the BBC Writersroom and the Royal Court to support talented writers from across the UK as they write a play, TV script or radio play for consideration by the Royal Court or the BBC.

Stacey has been under commission at the Bush, London & is a very exciting new young Irish voice.

Celebrated playwright Martin Lynch recently collaborated with Ransom's Artistic Director Rachel O'Riordan on Over the Bridge. His play Chronicles of Long Kesh set in the infamous Maze prison, premired in Belfast in January 2009 with a sold-out run and was a hit during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year

Come to Where I'm From is staged at the Island Arts Centre Saturday June 26 at 7.30pm. Tickets priced 5 are available from the Island Arts Centre Box Office on 9250 9254 or online at www.islandartscentre.com.