ARTS: ‘Hanging in There’- A New Perspective on the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

On Friday 23rd of October The Gown met up with ‘Hanging in There,’ an internationally acclaimed act appearing at the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s. A number of journalists gathered to interview the pair of performers on the steps of Stormont. This was a symbolic location in many respects as the man-to-man dance duet, devised and performed by Nick Bryson and Damian Punch, see their act as a parody of the peace process in Northern Ireland.

BY JANE BROWN

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