Lights Up

Taal: NL
Categorie: muziek

A century after the formation of the first Northern Irish women's football team, Derry Girl's Tara Lynne O'Neill's debut play, enacted by an all-female cast, chronicles the courage and determination of the women who became known as the suffragettes of soccer. In Belfast, in September 1917, in the midst of World War One and one year after the Easter Rising, a group of women representing the teams Celtic and Distillery got together to play football in front of sixteen thousand fans at Grosvenor Park. While the men were away at war, the women risked ridicule and rejection by kicking a ball. But the game proved so popular that it was repeated to ever-increasing crowds. They went on to play the first-ever women's international match that same year at the same venue and carried on until the FA ban on women's football in 1921. In 2021, Northern Ireland's women's football team has just qualified for Euro 2022 for the first time, making history once again. Oscar Wilde said: "Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but it's hardly suitable for delicate boys." This is the story of those "Rough Girls". Rough Girls was filmed for television at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast, with a socially distanced audience, for BBC Arts. Executive Producer: Jimmy Fay Director: Kimberley Sykes Writer: Tara Lynne O'Neill Tara Lynne O'Neill She Carol Moore Mrs C Claire Cogan Mrs O'Neill Jo Donnelly Mrs Stott Nicky Harley Duncher Caroline Curran Gertie Ruby Campbell Tilly Eloise Stevenson Molly Catriona McFeely Maggie Ann Suzie Seweify Miss M Nuala McGowan Spit