The Pitch at The Space Theatre

East Belfast. A dilapidated football pitch.

Brother and sister, Robbie and Melissa have lived here all their lives, and constantly practice football together on their favourite, local pitch.

It’s also home to Gaelic Football player Deren. He has to travel miles away, to play on his nearest GAA ground. To Robbie and Melissa, Gaelic Football is that sport where you cheat, and run with the ball in your hands!

When this unlikely trio meet, everything changes. Plans are revealed for ‘The Pitch’ to be

refurbished into a Gaelic Football ground. Deren is ecstatic. The Unionist community are outraged, Robbie included. Melissa couldn’t care less – she quite likes this ‘new’ sport she’s discovered how to play!

As a United Ireland referendum lingers on the horizon, the country these three new friends grew up in, is shifting around them. Will they be happy with what Northern Ireland is changing into?