Given the recent electoral results in Northern Ireland, its worth examining afresh the dilemmas within this still-sensitive paramilitary issue, particularly from a female rather than typically male perspective. But writer-director-producer Maeve Murphys techniques are still chained to the theatre (this screenplay is expanded from a Time Out Award-winning play); some touches are unsubtle (how often do we need to hear I Fought The Law to get the point?) and she allows too much fluctuation across the performances.
Cathleen Bradley, as a teenage tearaway thrown in by the governor to disrupt the paramilitaries, falls below the standard of her fellow actors, undergoing a personality change from Kevin & Perry whining to committed Republican activist.