A new play is opening this weekend at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis. The performance is all about violence and reconciliation, something the Twin Cities has experienced first hand.
The play is about the effects of violence and the possibility of reconciliation in Northern Ireland, and while the work is fiction, it's based on an actual event during the "Troubles" in 1975.
When Alistair Little, a 17-year-old Protestant Ulster Volunteer Force member, is murdered Jim Griffin, a 19-year-old Catholic, he goes to jail for 12 years.
Griffin's younger brother Joe was 11 at the time and witnessed the killing and after Little gets out of prison, he becomes deeply involved in restorative justice and peace-building throughout the world.
The play takes place 45 years later, as television producers come up with the idea of creating a program about reconciliation in Northern Ireland and want to film a meeting between Alistair Little and Joe Griffin.
Michael Egan adapted the play from Guy Hibbert's award-winning screenplay, and Illusion Theater's producing director Michael Robins is directing it.
The show is set to kick off Friday night, with performances running until Sunday, Oct. 23. For more information or to get tickets, visit the theater's website.
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