Blue Plaque commemorating the Belfast Protestant Working-Class Playwright Sam Thompson
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Blue Plaque commemorating the Belfast Protestant Working-Class Playwright Sam Thompson
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 3 Nov 2014
This has been erected besides the site of the house No2 Montrose Street South in which Sam Thompson (1916-1965) was born. A ship yard worker Sam Thompson was a Socialist. His most famous play is "Over the Bridge" (1960) a controversial anti-sectarian play which was staged in Belfast against much opposition by the late Jimmy Ellis. During its six-week run in the city it attracted a greater audience number than any other play staged in Belfast before or since. http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2013/over-the-bridge.php
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