Citizen - Your Country Doesn't Need You
And so it goes that we the people elect representatives to serve our interests in government… to answer to us… and to run our country in our name. And we the same people sit in judgment upon those representatives when elections come around.
Yet in a country where it is claimed that more young people voted for X factor than in the general election and where over a tenth of MLAs in Northern Ireland’s Assembly are unelected, Replay Theatre Company stood on its soapbox and shouted - does your country need you?
Vincent Higgins’ new work irreverently shoved aside Uncle Sam and the historic stalwarts of Revolution to take a satirical look closer to home and expose our own illusions of democracy.
