Funded by The Arts Council Of Northern Ireland the production will open at the Lyric Theatre Belfast on Tuesday 17th Feb and continue there until Saturday 21st February.  The show then hits the road on a Northern Irish tour until 14th March 2015.

The cast includes Richard Clements, Roisin Gallagher and Darren Franklin all from Belfast and the show will be directed by c21′s Creative Director Stephen Kelly.

Stitched Up is an entertaining satirical drama about the current crisis within the NHS.  An NHS surgeon, Aidan, is fighting to clear his name after an operation has gone wrong.  His wife, Kate, a peace-facilitator, is meanwhile preoccupied with her own campaign to remove the peace walls around Belfast and ‘meeting Bono’ – not to mention her obsession with shoes!  Naturally she thinks Aidan should leave the NHS and make lots more of money privately.

But one night, when Aidan is alone in his Malone Road house, a young visitor stumbles in. Ruari’s arrival causes havoc in Aidan and Kate’s lives, making them question their morality and social views.  In the big battle between health and wealth, who should Aidan help, and at what price?

This is a dark, edgy and funny one-act three-hander that looks at how difficult it is to be moral in contemporary society.   While our central couple is outwardly successful inwardly the surgeon finds his life is somehow lacking. His wife Kate is triumphant that the government has just passed a law to bring down the peace walls. Within days the surgeon is suspended for whistle blowing on NHS malpractice. His wife is aghast when she finds out. He says he will volunteer to be a surgeon abroad and that it would be great to put  Belfast behind them, but she believes that Belfast needs her and she’s not willing to uproot and go to some ‘dangerous country’.