Carolans debut play for local venues

Decadent Theatre present a nationwide tour of 'Defender of the Faith’, a play by Stuart Carolan, the writer and creator of RTE’s hit show Love/Hate. It comes to Ramor, Virginia, and Solstice, Navan.

'Defender of the Faith’ is a thriller set on a farm in Armagh 1986. The play tells the story of a family, entrenched in paramilitarism and under the constant watch of British forces. When a visitor arrives with the job of rooting out a police informer, paranoia grips the farm. Joe, his son Thomas, and a long-serving farm hand, Barney, all fall under suspicion. The family’s isolated farm becomes the setting for the electrifying exploration of a family tested by loyalty and love.

'Defender of the Faith’, which was Navan man Carolan's debut play, is blackly comic and chillingly real, with an atmosphere taut with tension, starring some of Ireland’s best actors including Lalor Roddy, Anthony Brophy, Diarmuid De Faoite and Michael Ford-FitzGerald, and directed by Andrew Flynn.

It stages in the Ramor Theatre on Friday 7th November. Booking on 049 8547074 or www.ramortheatre.com.

It will be in Navan on 14th and 15th November.