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SOON the National Theatre opens in Belfast with 'that Scottish play', otherwise known as Macbeth. It's considered unlucky to mention the title as a superstition has grown up that, if you do, disaster will befall.One actor explained that, being a very intense and physical play featuring daggers and swords, there's bound to be dangers: there have been many injuries, and the Bard himself is supposed to have included black magic spells in the incantation of the three witches – 'double, double, toil and trouble' and all that.Macbeth first opened in August 1606 and it would be some sort of miracle if indeed there hadn't been disasters over the 413 years since! And of course Macbeth himself has a very unfortunate tale to tell, as we'll see on March 5 to 9 at the Grand Opera House in Belfast.This play has lost none of its appeal over the years, an outrageous story of witches predicting that Macbeth will become King of Scotland. He makes sure of it by plotting and murder – be warned … [Read more...] about Rufus Norris on bringing National Theatre’s new Macbeth to Belfast

Gary McDonald Business Editor 13 February, 2019 01:00 BELFAST technology firm Kainos is paying more than £7 million to take all its staff to the cinema . . . . The AIM-listed digital services and platforms provider has bought a site at Bankmore Square, [...] You have reached your limit of free articles Registered users get 5 regular articles and 1 free Premium article per week.   … [Read more...] about Kainos in £7m move to former Movie House cinema site

A FIRST-TIME collaboration between Irish directors Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell, Gaza premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah last week.Co-produced by Belfast-based Fine Point Films (No Stone Unturned, Bobby Sands: 66 Days) – making it the first documentary from a Belfast-based production company to premiere at Robert Redford's prestigious event – with major financial support from Screen Ireland, the empathetic and visually arresting film focuses on day-to-day life in the embattled 25-by-seven mile stretch of Mediterranean coastline that's home to two million people.The film introduces us to a diverse selection of ordinary Gazans – cello-playing law student Karma, teenage aspiring fisherman Ahmed, photographer-turned-lifeguard Mahmoud, a veteran tailor, a taxi driver and others – who talk about their lives on the Gaza Strip under Hamas rule and the impact of Israel's land, sea and air blockade, which has been in place since 2007.Shot over four years … [Read more...] about Belfast producer Brendan Byrne on how Irish film Gaza has gone down at Sundance