A theatre company targeting the working class faces closure - a situation its director blames on repeated rejections for Arts Council of Northern Ireland funding. David Roy talks to Martin Lynch about Green Shoot Productions' track record.
'When it comes to staging new socially concious productions that people actually turn out to see, there aren't many local playwrights with a better track record than Martin Lynch.
From his early work Dockers, the docklands-inspired play which attracted a working class audience to Belfast's Lyric Theatre for the first time in the early 1980s, to more recent endeavours like last year's acclaimed Northern Ireland civil rights movement-themed show We'll Walk Hand In Hand, over the past 40 years Lynch (68) has repeatedly brought stories from working class communities to the stage in a compelling manner.' ... Keep reading on The Irish News
'When it comes to staging new socially concious productions that people actually turn out to see, there aren't many local playwrights with a better track record than Martin Lynch.
From his early work Dockers, the docklands-inspired play which attracted a working class audience to Belfast's Lyric Theatre for the first time in the early 1980s, to more recent endeavours like last year's acclaimed Northern Ireland civil rights movement-themed show We'll Walk Hand In Hand, over the past 40 years Lynch (68) has repeatedly brought stories from working class communities to the stage in a compelling manner.' ... Keep reading on The Irish News