The Interrogation Of Ambrose Fogarty

Ambrose Fogarty, a 30-year old father of two is detained for three days and interrogated by Stanley, Jackie and Peter, who attempt to get a signed confession from him to armed robbery.

Martin Lynch is one of the most important dramatists to have emerged from the political and cultural ferment of the last thirty years in Northern Ireland. Perhaps the most overtly political of Lynch's plays, The Interrogation of Ambrose Fogarty is set in an RUC holding centre and vividly portrays the constantly changing relationship between the interrogators and those interrogated. It shows a world of complex morality, eschewing the easy black-and white sloganeering of much Northern Irish writing. While no one is totally innocent, no one is totally beyond the audience's sympathies.