Drum Belly

Richard Dormer is a Northern Irish playwright, screenwriter and actor. Hurricane, a play about the life of snooker legend Alex Higgins, which he wrote and starred in, won him the Stage award for Best Actor and the BBC Stewart Parker Award for New Writing. It was published in Methuen Drama’s collection Tiger in Winter: Six Contemporary Irish Plays (2006). Other plays include The Half and Gentlemen's Tea Drinking Society which were produced through Belfast's Ransom theatre company.

Go[es] beyond the crime syndicate clichés and turn[s] a tightly plotted mystery into a meditation on the amorphous nature of national and cultural identity . . . Dormer’s razor sharp, telegraphic language is presented at times not as mere naturalistic dialogue, but almost as pure chorale rhythm . . . an extremely well-crafted play.