Play For Today

Two women navigate the challenges of life on a wintry day in 1980s Belfast. While Ruby has a cold and gets caught in the rain, Iris is job-hunting but feels lost in the traffic.

First in a trilogy of plays about the Martin family. Billy's parents are estranged, and he finds it difficult living under the same roof as his father.

Colin Welland’s play about what takes place after Harry kisses barmaid Audrey in front of the whole pub on his fiftieth birthday.

Comedy drama from 1982, written by Alan Bennett and starring Julie Walters. When his father is taken ill, Midgley makes a bee-line for the bedside, anxious to atone for the mistakes of the past. When his dad dies, Midgley is determined to be there, holding his hand. Typically, his dad lingers. The hospital wants Midgley out of the way and maybe Midgley wants his father out of the way. Until, that is, the arrival of night nurse Valery.

Belfast 1978. The Martin family, one year on. Norman is away in England, and his eldest son Billy and daughter Lorna are in charge of their younger sisters Ann and Maureen.

Third in a trilogy of plays by Graham Reid. Two years after Norman Martin left his family to seek work in England, news of his return home is met with mixed reactions.