“If women are written out of history, we’ll write the future ourselves.”
1996.
Northern Ireland’s on the brink.
Politics is a boys’ club, and we’re done pretending otherwise.
This high-voltage piece of gig theatre, based on real political transcripts and lived experience, smashes open the true story of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition.
Cuckoo Land throws audiences straight into the adrenaline of a movement built from kitchen tables, community halls, and pure stubborn hope. These weren’t career politicians. They were activists, mothers, social workers, academics; women who realised that if they didn’t fight their way into the process, nobody was ever going to open the door for them.
Set against the chaos of a world pre-Good-Friday-Agreement, Cuckoo Land captures the reality these women faced: heckling, misogyny, mockery, threats, and the relentless pressure to leave the ‘real politics’ to the men.
But they didn’t.
They built a party from the ground up in six weeks, recruited a hundred candidates, and walked into negotiations with a manifesto grounded in equality, human rights, and cooperation.
Live music drives the show like a heartbeat; fast and unrelenting. Filled with protest harmonies, distorted riffs, and the charged energy of women who won’t be shut out, political urgency meets true punk spirit.
It’s bold, it’s messy, and blisteringly human. It honours the women who fought the system, insisting that peace worth building had to belong to everyone, not just the powerful.
This is the story of what happens when women crash the party, refuse to behave, and drag a country toward a different future, one cigarette and late-night strategy session at a time.
Cuckoo Land is loud, bright, and long overdue.
Join Kabosh and Imagine! for this exclusive work-in-progress sharing, Upstairs in The MAC. Get a peek behind the curtain into the making of this exciting new work.
Be among the first to hear extracts straight from the rehearsal room, alongside thought-provoking dialogue from the Creative Team to get an insight into how an idea like this becomes reality.
Expect interesting discussions, dynamic theatre and ear-worm anthems to bring the house down. One night only, this one isn’t to be missed.
This Work in Progress sharing is brought to you by Kabosh, The MAC and the Imagine! Festival.
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