Appendage Blog

c21 go into development with the writer of Appendage. Derek Murphy will be heading over to Belfast to work with c21 for a week at the end of the October on the script that saw a first airing at the Pick N Mix Festival 2011.
A dark comedy in which Jack’s girlfriend, Jill, before she dies from cancer asks Jack to kill Peter, her husband.
In what first appears to be a minor accident in which Jack is struck by Peter’s car turns far more serious as Peter comes to learn that accidents don’t just happen, Jack makes them happen.

c21 are looking forward to the arrival of 'Appendage' Playwright Derek Murphy, who sets foot in N.Ireland on 30.10.11.  He will start with the company on the following day in the Lyric Theatre Belfast as part of their collaborative development week.
Watch this space......

The company is delighted to announce that it has been awarded funding from Arts Council Of N.I.'s Joint Sectoral Dramaturgy Fund.

The money will fund a collaborative project to be held in The Lyric Theatre 31st October - 5th November 2011.   The week, will see Playwright Derek Murphy fly in from New York especially for the development process.  He will be joined by actor Nick Hardin and Stephen Kelly along with Artistic director Peter Quigley.  

As Part of Pick N Mix 2011, c21 will be working on a rehearsed reading of Derek Murphy's Appendage.

Stephen Kelly, Nick Hardin and Collette Lennon are the cast for this.

It's a great script and we are hoping that we will be able to continue working on this after the rehearsed reading.

c21 will be performing a rehearsed reading of a new play, 'Appendage' By Derek Murphy, at POP UP PIC N MIX in association with The Mac at Queen's Film Theatre from 17-19 June 2011.
Actor Nick Hardin first approached the company in relation to Playwright Murphy's work.  Hardin (from New York and based in Ballymoney) had taken part in an Irish tour of Murphy's 'A Short Wake' alongside Joe Estevez (brother of Martin Sheen) in 2008 and became close friends with the New York Playwright.