Getting the Picture

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Specially commissioned as a joint Irish-American cultural relations project, Getting the Picture premired at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast as part of the 1998 Belfast Festival.Set in Tennessee in 1845, former US president Andrew Jackson is preparing to have his photograph taken when a young Northern Irish woman challenges him to support a movement to break the union with Britain.

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David Pownall is one of Britain's leading playwrights. His collected plays published by Oberon Books include Masterclass, Music to Murder By, Elgar's Rondo, Elgar's Third (The Composer Plays), Njinsky: Death of a Faun and six award-winning radio plays, including The Epiphanous Use of the Microphone, commissioned to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the first ever broadcast of a play on the 'wireless'.