Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912

Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912

Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912

Owen McCafferty

Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912

Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry, 1912

Owen McCafferty

Overview

At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the following morning, the ship sank. 1,517 people died. In response to the disaster the British Government ordered an immediate inquiry and Lord Mersey was appointed commissioner. The British Wreck Commissioner's Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July 1912. It took testimony from 97 witnesses. Full of intrigue, bravery and human frailty, Owen McCafferty's "Titanic" retells the survivors' stories, using dialogue taken word-for-word from the hundred-year-old accounts. The play premiered in April 2012 as the inaugural production of the MAC, Belfast.

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Owen McCafferty

Owen McCafferty
QUIETLY received its US premiere in New York in July 2016. It was first produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and nominated Best New Play at the Irish Times Theatre Awards. The production played at the Traverse Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival and the Soho Theatre, Lond ...
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