Christina Reid

Theatre

WORKS FROM THIS ARTIST

Christina Reid is a playwright from Belfast. She was a writer-in-residence at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast and at the Young Vic. In London.

She has won the Thames Television Playwriting Award for “Tea in a China Cup”, the Ulster Television Drama Award for “Did You Hear the One About the Irishman?”, The Giles Cooper Award for “The Last of a Dyin’ Race” and the George Devine Award for “The Belle of the Belfast City”

Christina Reid died on 31st May, 2015

Plays:

Tea In A China Cup, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1983

Did You Hear The One About The Irishman . . .?, New York, 1985

Joyriders, Tricycle Theatre, London, 1986

The Belle Of Belfast City, Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1989

My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin, 1989

Lords, Dukes and Earls, Young Vic Theatre, London,1989

Les Misérables, Nottingham Playhouse, 1992

Clowns, The Orange Tree Theatre, 1996

The King of the Castle, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London, 1999

Clowns, The Room, Orange Tree, Richmond, 1996

The Understudy, Tinderbox Theatre Company, Belfast, 2003

The Gift of the Gab, National Threatre, London, 2003

A Year And A Day, National Theatre, London, 2007

Film/Television:

The Last of a Dyin’ Race, UTV / Channel 4 / RTE, 1988

Pie in the Sky, episode for Series 3, 1995

Streetwise, 13 episodes,1991

Radio:

The Last of a Dyin’ Race, BBC Radio 4, 1986

My name, Shall I Tell You My Name, BBC radio 4, 1987

Of All the Gin Joints, BBC radio 4, 1989

The Unfortunate Fursey, Dramitisation of a novel by Mervyn Wall, BBC Radio 4, 1989

Today and Yesterday in Northern Ireland, BBC Radio Ulster, 1989

Citizens, 6 episodes for serial, BBC, 1989

The Belle of the Belfast City, BBC radio 4, 1990

Summertime Donaghadee, BBC Radio 4, 1996

The Bomb Damage Sale Wedding Dress, BBC radio 4, 1998

The Funeral Orator’s Tale, BBC Radio 4, 2000

Sex and the Single Granny, Lyric FM, 2005

Publications:

Last of a Dyin’ Race, Metheun Best Radio Plays of 1986, 1986

Did You Hear The One About The Irishman . . .? and Joyriders, Heinemann, 1993

Christina Reid: Plays One, Methuen Drama, 1997 (Reprinted 2002)

My name, Shall I Tell You My Name, Routledge, War Plays by Women, 1999

The King of the Castle, Faber and faber, New Connections, 1999

The Gift of the Gab, Barrington Stoke Ltd, 2004

A Year and a Day, Faber and Faber, NT Connections, 2007

The Belle of the Belfast City, in ‘The Metheun Drama Anthology of Irish Plays’, 2008