The award-winning Abomination: A DUP Opera centres on the scandalous live radio interview given by Northern Irish politician, Iris Robinson, when she referred to homosexuality as an ‘abomination’, instantly reigniting the equality debate. 

With a high-impact, multi-disciplinary style, Belfast Ensemble take this moment in queer Irish history and wrap it within a web of incendiary historical comments by DUP members on the subject of gay rights and marriage equality.

With shockingly theatrical effect, the opera challenges the power of words in the hand of the powerful. 

Contemporary, political, comic and emotionally complex, this riotous and revolutionary performance redefines what a 21st-cenutury opera can, and should, say.