Lalor Roddy

[1] In 1988, together with Tim Loane and Stephen Wright, he founded the Tinderbox theatre company in Belfast, which produced two plays by Harold Pinter.[5] In 1989, the Tinderbox company received a cheque from the playwright Samuel Beckett, described as the "ultimate endorsement" in the world of Irish theatre.[4] The intention behind the Tinderbox was to challenge the sectarian hatreds in Ulster that led to 'the Troubles' of Northern Ireland, and create a theatre company that would "despite the system" put on new plays that might bring people together.[1] Roddy starred in two plays with the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, namely Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme and In a Little World of Our Own.[1] In 2004 and again in 2014, he acted in the controversial play Defender of the Faith by Stuart Carolan, set in 1986 on an isolated farm in County Armagh, where a family that supports the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) suspects that one of them might be an informer for the Crown.
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