Brexit looms large in arts festival that straddles Irish border
Event features Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and a sculpture by Antony Gormley at crossing points between north and south
Visitors to the only arts festival that straddles the Irish border will be invited to take their positions in a circle that is half in Northern Ireland and half in the republic, and wait to see if Godot arrives at a tree planted by the sculptor Antony Gormley on the dividing line between the two.
The festival’s director, Sean Doran, fears that if there is a return to a hard border after Brexit it will have as devastating an impact on cultural communications as that feared by farmers and traders, and has devised a series of events in August at some of the hundreds of official and unofficial border crossings.
