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Gary Mitchell
Gary Mitchell is a Northern Irish playwright. He is best known for his plays In a Little world of Our own (1997); As the Beast Sleeps (1998); and The Force of Change (2000).
Gary Mitchell came from a working-class, loyalist background.
Mitchell's first foray into writing was for Radio 4. His first play was produced by Tinderbox Theatre Company, but his first major theatre success was the production (by Connall Morrison) of his In A Little World of Our Own at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin, a gripping and unflinching portrayal of loyalist culture. It won The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play in 1997, and it later went to Belfast as part of an Abbey Theatre tour. The following year the Peacock Theatre produced his As The Beast Sleeps.[citation needed]
His works have also premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre.[citation needed]
Mitchell was writer-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1999.[citation needed]
In 2005, Angelique Chrisafis, writing in The Guardian, said that he had become "one of the most talked about voices in European theatre... whose political thrillers [had] arguably made him Northern Ireland's greatest playwright".
In November 2005, he was forced out of his home in the Belfast suburb of Rathcoole after it was attacked by loyalist paramilitaries. He and his family had to live in hiding somewhere in Northern Ireland, which forced Mitchell to put his career on hold for five years.
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Gary Mitchell
Gary Mitchell is a Northern Irish playwright. He is best known for his plays In a Little world of Our own (1997); As the Beast Sleeps (1998); and The Force of Change (2000).
Gary Mitchell came from a working-class, loyalist background.
Mitchell's first foray into writing was for Radio 4. His first play was produced by Tinderbox Theatre Company, but his first major theatre success was the production (by Connall Morrison) of his In A Little World of Our Own at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin, a gripping and unflinching portrayal of loyalist culture. It won The Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play in 1997, and it later went to Belfast as part of an Abbey Theatre tour. The following year the Peacock Theatre produced his As The Beast Sleeps.[citation needed]
His works have also premiered at London's Royal Court Theatre.[citation needed]
Mitchell was writer-in-residence at the Royal National Theatre in London in 1999.[citation needed]
In 2005, Angelique Chrisafis, writing in The Guardian, said that he had become "one of the most talked about voices in European theatre... whose political thrillers [had] arguably made him Northern Ireland's greatest playwright".
In November 2005, he was forced out of his home in the Belfast suburb of Rathcoole after it was attacked by loyalist paramilitaries. He and his family had to live in hiding somewhere in Northern Ireland, which forced Mitchell to put his career on hold for five years.