Moycraig Young Farmers have been performing their three-act plays since 1942, and apart from during the foot and mouth crisis, have never missed a year – so they weren’t going to let a little thing like COVID stop them!.
Tonight the True North series on BBC One Northern Ireland, follows the Moycraig YFC (Young Farmers Club) in ‘From Tractors to Actors’, as they prepare for and rehearse one of their three-act plays – passed from generation to generation – before taking it on the road throughout Northern Ireland.
Having only missed one performance in its 70 year history, could COVID-19 disrupt their best-laid plans.
Produced by Afro-Mic Productions with support from the Ulster-Scots Broadcast Fund, the producers have described the difficulties faced by the Moycrair YCF: “With the Coronavirus having put a stop to all live performances we follow the group as they come to terms with not only their tour being cancelled but also not getting to perform their big homecoming gig for their tight knit Ulster-Scots community – an event that has only been missed once in its near 70 year existence.
“With all the drama can they rally together to keep their long-standing tradition alive?“
As well as their performance, the programme delves into the Young Farmers lives along the way looking at what Ulster-Scots means to them- finishing with their much-anticipated homecoming show in the Country Antrim village of Mosside, if under difficult circumstances.
BBC One Northern Ireland tonight 10:30pm, True North: ‘from Tractors To Actors’.
