"As a post-conflict piece the focus is on what draws us together rather than pulling us apart."
Born in East Belfast, Stacey Gregg is an actor and playwright who explores what is going on in the world around her. From technology, gender identity, politics, and pedophilia- she has written six plays, and has received commissions from the Royal Court, Clean Break and the Abbey theatre. She currently works and lives primarily in Belfast, Dublin, and London. She left Belfast to study English at Cambridge in London and received an MA in documentary film-making in London. Lagan was Greggg's UK Debut in 2011 at London's Ovalhouse.
Stacey Gregg
Stacey Gregg On Lagan
"Lagan sprang from a desire to record stories of moments from the lives of characters definitively of Northern Ireland, today."
"It marks a settling-down, an opportunity to reflect and, for some, even a kind of anti-climax. Young men in particular, from both traditions, are left with a sense of uncertainty about what defines them."
"In order not to get lost in illustrating points or statistics, it is always the truisms to which we return: the personal is political."
"The devil is in the detail. Retail development, social planning, teen pregnancy – but amplified by the fact that Northern Ireland is the only country in the UK where abortion is not facilitated; where, as of 2008, there is less than 5.5% integrated schooling; where fundamental Christianity is on the rise in the young; and where many still live with the echoes of something that makes precious more sense now than it did then…"