Paul Kennedy and Kerry Woods on staging an apocalypse play in an abandoned warehouse

‘There was another warehouse we were looking at,’ Kerry Woods from Tinderbox Theatre Company explains. She is perching on a plastic-covered dining room chair in a storage room full of car-boot sale cast-offs.

There are bunk-beds around the corner and a strange park-diorama in a terrarium leaning against the wall. ‘But we would have had to pay to dirty it up, and that just seemed wrong. We wanted somewhere with an authentic dystopian atmosphere.’

She is talking about a site for Guidelines for a Long and Happy Life, a new play written by Paul Kennedy and commissioned by Tinderbox specifically for the 2011 Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s. ‘The play is set,’ Kennedy explains, ‘a generation after a global apocalypse that killed most humans and animals.’

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