Pentecost

Four people are gathered together in a Belfast working-class parlour-house where, against the background of the Ulster Workers’ Strike, they work out their relationships to each other, to the world outside, to the past. Only Marian is aware of a fifth presence - the ghost of Lily Matthews, the previous occupant.

The play focuses on personal relationships and dilemmas of identity at a time of high tension in the Troubles. The Ulster Workers Council Strike was a protest against a power sharing executive constituted under the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973 which for the first time acknowledged a role for the Irish republic in the affairs of Northern Ireland.