Finborough Theatre Presents World Premiere of CONTINUITY

In a new production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre and originally seen as a staged reading as part of Vibrant 2016 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, the world premiere of Continuity by new playwright Gerry Moynihan runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from Sunday, 30 July 2017.

A forensic examination of the soul of an Irish 'freedom fighter'.

Pádraig Devlin is a dissident Irish Republican, who begins to have doubts about his commitment to The Cause after he meets and falls in love with a woman from Barcelona. Soon after meeting her, Pádraig botches three assignments in a row. The other members of his terrorist cell decide to test the love-struck Pádraig's commitment. Has falling in love really weakened the resolve of a man determined to re-ignite the struggle for Irish freedom, and whose Republican credentials are beyond reproach? And just exactly what kind of test do they plan to set him? And how will Pádraig react when he discovers that he's being tested...

Continuity is the story of a man who begins to question everything he has ever fought for - and marks a stunning debut from a brand new playwright.

Paul Kennedy plays Padraig. Theatre includes Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Headlong Theatre and National Theatre of Ireland - Abbey Theatre), Macbeth (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Scarborough (Prime Cut), Planet Belfast (Tinderbox), Carnival, This is What We Sang and Those You Pass on the Street (Kabosh Theatre), Rat in the Skull, Flight and Re-Energise (The Playhouse, Derry). Film includes A Patch of Fog, '71, Shooting for Socrates, Jump, Five Minutes of Heaven, Cherrybomb, Fifty Dead Men Walking, Omagh and The Good Word. He wrote and directed the film Made in Belfast. Television includes The Fall, Line of Duty, Millie Inbetween, Occupation, Give My Head Peace, Best: His Mother's Son, Wodehouse in Exile, Ripper Street, 6degrees, The Wipers Times, Scoop , Game of Thrones, Saving The Titanic, The Secret, The Woman in White and The Frankenstein Chronicles.

Playwright Gerry Moynihan was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland in 1966. His first piece for theatre, a short play entitled Skiver, was staged at the Brockley Jack Theatre, and his full-length play Cailleach Óg won The Blackshaw Theatre's New Writing Night Award last year and had its premiere at The Pleasance Theatre in March 2017. Gerry is an alumni of the Finborough Theatre's 'Introduce Yourself' initiative as part of Vibrant 2015 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights.

Director Shane Dempsey directed the original staged reading of Continuity as part of Vibrant 2016 - A Festival of Finborough Playwrights, returning to the Finborough Theatre where he directed the epic The Non Stop Connolly Show by Margaretta D'Arcy and John Arden for the centenary of the Easter Rising in 2016. Direction includes The Master and Margarita (The Bussey Building and Te Pooka Edinburgh), Seven Jewish Children (Arcola Theatre), LOL by Lee Mattinson (Clifftown Theatre, Southend-on-Sea), The Bay (Theatre503, The Space and Te Pooka, Edinburgh) and The Girl In The Box (Clifftown Theatre, Southend-on-Sea, and RADA Studios), Spring Awakening in a new version by Gary Owen, (Mercury Theatre, Colchester) and 13 (Clifftown Theatre, Southend-On-Sea). Assistant Direction includes assisting Nicolas Kent Called to Account (Tricycle Theatre), Jamie Lloyd on The Caretaker (Tricycle Theatre), Suzanne Gorman on Moonwalking In Chinatown (Soho Theatre). He has run Stagecraft - one of Ireland's leading youth theatres - since 1998 including programming work from Moira Buffini, Enda Walsh and Jack Thorne. He is also the founding member of Fragments, a dynamic physical ensemble in London. Shane was funded by The Arts Council of Ireland to train as a director at E15 Acting School. He went on to be invited to observe Lev Dodin of the Maly Theatre of St Petersburg in Paris and has also observed actor training in Moscow at the Vakhtangov Theatre. He has also led workshops in New York, Bangkok, Moscow and Beijing. His work also includes a landmark digital film archive, Mothers of Modern Ireland - A People's History www.mothersofmodernireland.com

For more information visit finboroughtheatre.co.uk.

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