The Celtic Cross
an original play by
Matthew Jackson
JACOB: When are you Papist terrorists going to calm down and learn to live with us?
THOMAS: When we’re free.

photo copyright Alyson Sundal, 2009
The Celtic Cross is the story of the unlikely friendship that forms between Jacob and Thomas, two young men in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Jacob is a Protestant Loyalist and Thomas is a Catholic Nationalist. Set in the 1990s, these two men have lived their entire lives during “The Troubles.” Although they are conditioned to hate each other, an improbable friendship unfolds, but their circumstances force them to choose between their friendship and their beliefs.