Bittersweet new play shows Belfast stripped bare

Visually arresting, Shibboleth revolves around the contentious building of a ‘peace wall’

Kerri Quinn and Andy Kellegher in Shibboleth

Shibboleth

By Stacey Gregg

The Peacock Stage, Dublin

Until October 31

Rating***

Reviewed by Joanne Hayden

In her new play, Belfast writer Stacey Gregg casts a fond, but sceptical, eye on the state of her native city. Visually arresting and determinedly non-naturalistic, Shibboleth revolves around the contentious building of a ‘peace wall,’ one of the numerous ‘interface barriers’ which have proliferated since the Good Friday Agreement.

In a stroke of inspired casting, the ...