Castlerock actress in premiere of play at Queen's

Claire Bowman is a final year drama student at Queen's University in Belfast and has been cast as the lead role in the university’s final independent project for the year.

“Crooked” by Catherine Trieschmann is a controversial new play being performed for the first time in Ireland and deals with issues of religion, disability and sexuality.

It is a small, intimate production with huge questions at its core. Ostensibly a play about three women, it deals with issues of mental and physical disability, sexuality, religion and the trauma of approaching adulthood.

The focus on adolescence allows playwright Catherine Trieschmann to interrogate female subjectivity at a time when a profusion of theories and discourses render ‘how to be a woman’ fraught and complex.

At no other time is the desire to be ‘normal’ so pressing, and the failure to be ‘normal’ so policed socially. Drawing upon evangelical Christianity, sociological theories and the contemporary confusion about feminism religion and sexuality, fantasy and reality are blurred in coping mechanisms that are extreme and desperate.

“Crooked” is running at The Brian Friel Theatre until March 25 at 7:30pm

To book tickets please call the booking line on 02890 971382 or e- mail [email protected] Tickets are 6/4 (concession). www.brianfrieltheatre.co.uk