Donegal actress to star in touring Belfast Girls stage play

Donegal actress, Caitríona Williams, is returning to the stage in Donegal as a cast member of the touring play, Belfast Girls.

Belfast Girls will visit An Grianan Theatre in Letterkenny on October 14 and October 15, as part of a nationwide tour that takes in theatres in Drogheda, Virginia, Sligo, Monaghan, Dublin, Newbridge, Galway, Kilkenny, and Belfast. 

An award-winning feminist play based on a true piece of largely untold Irish history, Jaki McCarrick’s Belfast Girls follows the story of five fierce young Irish women aboard the Inchinnan travelling from Belfast to Australia during the Famine in the desperate hope of a new life abroad. But the further from home they voyage, the more each of them comes to realise they cannot escape their pasts, nor the seemingly universal subjugation of their gender. Over the long ship journey the women form intense bonds, and life-changing secrets are revealed, personal and political.

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Joining Caitríona Williams in this new production, directed by Rhiann Jeffrey, is an all-star cast that includes Debra Hill, Ebby O’Toole-Acheampong, Fiona Keenan O’Brien, and Leah Rossiter.

Caitríona Williams is a graduate of Technological University Dublin with a BA in Drama Performance, and has TV and film credits in Bad Sisters 2 and Victim of the Vikings, as well as theatre credits in The Whispering Chair, Playboy of the Western World, Peter Pan, Dancing at Lughnasa, Haunting of Gusty Nook, and Made From Paper.