Kieran Griffiths

As Derry’s Guildhall prepares to host a major new musical drama about John Hume’s life, and his odyssey for peace and hope, Jenny Lee chats to director Kieran Griffiths and actor Conor O’Kane about the emotional production

WRITER Liam Campbell, who died just weeks before the opening of a stage-production he wrote about Bloody Sunday, is one of the contributors to a new film about the making of the musical drama.

EXACTLY 50 years on from the darkest day in Derry's history, the city's Guildhall will be host to a new drama inspired by the enduring image of Fr Edward Daly waving a blood-soaked handkerchief as he led a group of people carrying one of Bloody Sunday's victims - 17-year-old Jackie Duddy -from the scene of the shooting.

THE Playhouse in Derry has announced its plans to resume staging productions to live audiences in September.

THE Playhouse in Derry will dramatise life in an Irish Catholic College during the 1950s with its new production The Monk, The Bird and The Priest.