Freedom

The second offering from Brigit Saint Brigit’s Irish Theatre in Repertory, the play is set in early 1972 during a civil rights march in Derry City, Northern Ireland. As the scene opens, three dead bodies are photographed and given their last rites before being dragged offstage. An English judge then appears and provides some background: "These three people came together, seized possession of a civic building and openly defied the security forces. The facts may indicate that the deceased were callous terrorists who had planned to seize the Guildhall weeks before or the misguided scheme occurred to them on that very day while they listened to revolutionary speeches."

As the play continues, it becomes app...