{"id":23569,"date":"2024-12-19T16:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T15:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/?p=23569"},"modified":"2024-12-20T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T08:49:37","slug":"comedian-nuala-mckeever-brings-acclaimed-comedy-drama-to-4-corners-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/2024\/12\/comedian-nuala-mckeever-brings-acclaimed-comedy-drama-to-4-corners-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Nuala McKeever Brings Acclaimed Comedy Drama to 4 Corners Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Belfast comedian Nuala McKeever\u2019s acclaimed one-woman show, Truth, Love or Promise is set to take centre stage at the 4 Corners Festival next year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Promising an evening of laughter, poignancy, and powerful storytelling the show will take place on Saturday February 1 at Stranmillis College Drama Theatre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of the festival\u2019s packed 2025 lineup the hilarious show, written and performed by McKeever and directed by Dan Gordon follows three women – Brenda, Maureen, and Joanna, who bond through a Belfast creative writing class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Their shared stories gradually reveal unspoken truths, exploring themes of loss, grief, and life\u2019s unexpected twists with a perfect balance of humour and pathos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of the production, comedian and writer Nuala McKeever said: \u201c<\/span>I\u2019m excited to do Truth, Love or Promise for the 4 Corners Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve performed the play North and South over the past year and a half.\u00a0 It\u2019s had rave responses from the audience and critics alike.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOriginally I was commissioned to write a one woman play for Dunboyne College in Co Louth, for International Women\u2019s Day.\u00a0 I had a dream about Dan Gordon one night. Next day I asked him if he\u2019d direct. He said yes and we were off.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe play almost wrote itself. I would be lying in bed and the characters would start talking. I\u2019d simply say the dialogue into my phone and then type it up the next day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, there was a lot of work to shape it and edit it down to 70 minutes, but the original idea just emerged from the ether.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cClearly, looking at it, it\u2019s inspired by my life over the last 11 years, since the untimely and traumatic death of my partner Mike in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt isn\u2019t autobiographical but it does deal with grief and loss.\u00a0 Basically, it\u2019s the idea of what do we do when life doesn\u2019t go the way we expected? Are we just victims? Do we have any power?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI set it in a Creative Writing class. Three women meet. We think we know who they are and what they\u2019ll be like, but, as in real life, each of them has something going on behind the fa\u00e7ade. And some of what\u2019s going on is quite surprising. Even shocking.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s about the power of telling your story. Of being seen and heard. Of finding common ground with other, completely different people. It\u2019s about finding connection. It\u2019s about challenging our solid identities and discovering the\u00a0 joy of coming home to who we really are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The 4 Corners Festival, now in its 13th year, runs from January 31 to February 9 with a mission to inspire connection and reflection across Belfast\u2019s communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This year\u2019s theme is HOME?, offering another year of diverse range of events including art, music, drama, and faith-inspired activities aimed at encouraging attendees to explore new corners of the city and forge meaningful connections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-founders Steve Stockman and Father Martin Magill said the festival is a celebration of diversity and belonging, with this year\u2019s events rooted in the concept of home as both a physical and emotional space.<\/span><\/p>\n

A well-known name in Northern Ireland, Nuala McKeever first rose to fame as part of the award-winning Hole in the Wall Gang and later made history as the first woman in Ireland to host her own television show, The McKeever Show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her career has spanned stand-up comedy, playwriting, international touring, and broadcasting, and her latest production delves into identity, love, and the strength of friendship.<\/span><\/p>\n

David Campton, 4 Corners committee member, said: \u201c<\/span>Last year\u2019s 4 Corners theme was Stories this year it is Home?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis superb one woman show written and performed by Nuala McKeever is a perfect bridge from one to the other as we hear a range of diverse stories emerging around a creative writing group that sheds light on this city we call home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The wider 4 Corners Festival will encompass a wide variety of talks, discussions, practical workshops and more, spreading the word of local and global contextual issues across its ten \u00a0 \u00a0 day run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Aimed at broadening perspectives and helping people to think about bigger issues, such as homelessness, the care of our common home, the earth, transport and accessibility within our home city, these heavy integral topics are interwoven together with lighthearted festivities like music, poetry, drama and the visual arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

The event\u2019s schedule of activities will also challenge attendees to step beyond the physical and psychological \u2018corners\u2019 of Belfast, discovering new parts of their city, fresh perspectives and meaningful connections.<\/span><\/p>\n

4 Corners Festival is supported by The Executive Office’s Central Good Relations Fund, The Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund and Belfast City Council Good Relations Fund, St Anne’s Cathedral Sitout and Linen Quarter BID.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more information about the festival and to keep up to date with programme updates go to <\/b>4cornersfestival.com<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belfast comedian Nuala McKeever\u2019s acclaimed one-woman show, Truth, Love or Promise is set to take centre stage at the 4 Corners Festival next year. Promising an evening of laughter, poignancy, and powerful storytelling the show will take place on Saturday February 1 at Stranmillis College Drama Theatre. Part of the festival\u2019s packed 2025 lineup the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1783,1852,1851],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23579,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23569\/revisions\/23579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatsonni.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}