BOG PEOPLE

Imagine that the ground beneath our feet is haunted, and that layer upon layer hides a secret of lives already lived.

Inspired by Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems Bog People is a haunting, evocative sequence of stories about love, violence, mystery and memory, written by Lucy Caldwell, Nicola McCartney and Francis Turnly with music composed by Neil Martin.

Linked by landscape, the stories are set on a particularly significant piece of Bogland over several different time periods, and the audience becomes detective, piecing together the fragments of the past.

Don’t miss this unique theatrical experience bringing together Big Telly’s reputation for dynamic, contemporary Irish Classics, The Playboy of the Western World, The Country Boy with its highly original and accessible approach to new work The Little Mermaid so far seen by 30,000 people in swimming pools across the world.

BOG PEOPLE will be touring Ireland from 20th September until 27th October 2007. Venues include:

Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick, Saturday 22nd September at 8pm Box Office: 028 4461 0747

Waterside Theatre, L'Derry, Wednesday 26 September at 8pm & Thursday 27th September at 10.30am, Box Office:028 7131 4000

Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Friday 28th September at 8pm Box Office:028 8224 7831

Craic Arts Centre, Coalisland, Saturday 29th September at 8pm Box Office: 028 8774 1100

Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Wednesday 3rd & Thursday 4th October at 8pm Box Office: 091 569777

Theatre Royal, Waterford, Saturday 6th October at 8pm Box Office: 051 874402

Friars' Gate Theatre, Kilmallock, Monday 8th October at 8pm, Box Office: 063 98727

Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Tuesday 9th & Wednesday 10th October at 8pm, Box Office: 041 983 3946

Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 October at 8pm Box Office: 028 9038 1081 www.lyrictheatre.co.uk

Alley Arts and Conference Centre, Strabane, Thursday 18th October at 8pm Box Office: 028 7138 4444

Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen, Friday 19th & Saturday 20th October at 8pm Box Office: 028 6632 5440

Garage Theatre, Monaghan, Monday 22nd Octoberat 8pm, Box Office: 047 81597

Market Place Theatre, Armagh, Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th October at 8pm, Box Office: 028 3752 1821

Iontas Theatre, Castleblayney, Saturday 27th October at 8.30pm Box Office: 042 9753400

IRISH CLASSIC REVIEWS

"sends the audience out into the night beaming with satisfaction"

The Irish Times, The Country Boy, Irish Tour, February 2007

"spellbinding spectacle...a world-class production by this innovative, ambitious and risk-taking local company."

Belfast Telegraph, The Little Mermaid, November 2006

"Big Telly have established a fine reputation for original and quirky interpretations of Irish Classics in the last couple of years and right from the start, they caught the audience off guard.

Irish Theatre Magazine, Synge Double Bill,2005