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The White Handkerchief

A journey behind the scenes at the creation of a bold new musical play to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday and to create a new legacy from that devastating event.

30 January 2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. As the people of Derry city came together to commemorate the event, a bold new piece of musical theatre was staged in the Guildhall - the intended but never-reached destination for the fateful 1972 civil rights march.

Commissioned by the city’s Playhouse Theatre, The White Handkerchief seeks to create a dramatic elegy to the 13 killed alongside those others injured, and to catalyse a creative legacy from those devastating events.

The result is a bold experiment which renders the events of Bloody Sunday on a vivid new audio-visual canvas and seeks to inspire a new generation of local talent in musical theatre, offering a bright and unexpected legacy of that day 50 years ago.

Filmed over nine months, this intimate portrait takes viewers into the heart of the production and a city striving to come to terms with the defining event of its recent history.

59 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 Mar 2022 21:00

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Role Contributor
Producer Vinny Cunningham
Producer John Peto
Director Vinny Cunningham
Director John Peto

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