A dole clerk’s revelation in the Troubles
WAKING up to the dangers of sectarianism is the theme of A Night in November, which runs at Cork’s Everyman Theatre from Sept 24-29. The one-man show, written by Marie Jones, is performed by Conor Grimes. It’s about an Ulster Protestant dole clerk, Kenneth Norman McCallister, who has discriminated against Catholics throughout his life.
Set in the early 1990s, Grimes describes the play as “brilliant. It’s about this man who gets to a point where he can’t stomach sectarianism anymore. It’s set during the time when things were really reaching a head, just before the IRA ceasefire. At that time, loyalists had started going into bars and shooting people. The atrocities were beyond belief.”
