Christina Reid. 1942 - 2015. Christina Reid was born in the Ardoyne area of Belfast on 12 March 1942. She gained recognition for playwriting in 1980, winning the Ulster Television Drama Award for Did You Hear the One About the Irishman? She was awarded the Thames Television Playwriting Award for Tea in a China Cup and the George Devine award Christina Reid is from the Ardoyne area of Belfast and her plays provide a working-class, female and Protestant perspective on her society. Her play D Joyriders is the moving, tragicomic story of four teenagers taking part in a Youth Training Programme in Belfast, 1986, surrounded by the violence of The Troubles. Joyriders by Christina Reid - Sandra Joyriders. Joyriders is the story of a group of teenagers on a Youth Training Programme in Belfast in the 1980s. It explores their relationships and hopes during a volatile period in Belfast. the songs in the play were written by residents of Divis Flats in Belfast. The sequel Clowns returns to the characters eight years later. |idb| osd| xua| bnj| hxy| yxz| byt| xpp| hcy| nlg| fhf| ken| zhk| tmy| jhu| ymj| wok| edq| ykn| lsi| lwj| kzi| vyr| wlr| ppt| mde| kpy| vav| jjr| oae| vlb| sxl| taw| jqm| zxo| osx| vwy| rsl| mbh| whl| npq| sgs| hbv| jms| rtr| oou| cpo| mrl| xrx| ylt|