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.
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Clips
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Bloody Sunday families come to see excerpts from the production
Duration: 01:37
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'We're a city of song'
Duration: 01:49
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Producer | Vinny Cunningham |
Producer | John Peto |
Director | Vinny Cunningham |
Director | John Peto |
Broadcasts
- Mon 7 Mar 2022 22:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
- Fri 11 Mar 2022 23:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
- Sun 13 Mar 2022 21:00
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