‘I’ve had standing ovations before, but this was different’: NI playwright on bringing Good Friday Agreement to the stage

Twenty-six years after the signing of the deal, the playwright talks about bringing his version of events to the stage Owen McCafferty (Photo by William Cherry/Presseye) When Owen ­McCafferty was asked if he was interested in writing a play about the Good Friday Agreement, he was very clear about one thing. “I wasn’t interested in doing a verbatim play,” he says. “From a playwriting point of view, it was easier for me to approach it if I thought about the notion of agreement in general.

How does agreement work? How does any sort of conflict resolution work where you’re trying to get the participants to agree?.