The White Handkerchief

30th January 2022 marked the fiftieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. As the people of Derry city came together to commemorate the event, a bold new piece of musical theatre was staged in the Guildhall - the intended but never-reached destination for the fateful 1972 civil rights march. Commissioned by the city’s Playhouse Theatre, The White Handkerchief seeks to create a dramatic elegy to the 13 killed alongside those others injured, and to catalyse a creative legacy from those devastating events. The result is a bold experiment which renders the events of Bloody Sunday on a vivid new audio-visual canvas and seeks to inspire a new generation of local talent in musical theatre, offering a bright and unexpected legacy of that day 50 years ago. Filmed over nine months, this intimate portrait takes viewers into the heart of the production and a city striving to come to terms with the defining event of its recent history.

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

58m

Genres

Documentary

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  The Day Innocence Died: Bloody Sunday and the Fight for Justice

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  Bloody Sunday: A Derry Diary

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  Sunday

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• Shalborne

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  Informe+. Tenerife 1992

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• Woman

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• Culture

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  Six Hours

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• Isänmaan vangit

  1996

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  Ms. Conceptions

  1995

• Turvalisuse illusioon

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