As the Beast Sleeps

As the Beast Sleeps

75 mins | Feb. 3, 2002

Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.

As the Beast Sleeps

75 mins | Feb. 3, 2002

As the Beast Sleeps
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
Producers BBC Northern Ireland
Original title As the Beast Sleeps
Directors Barry Keil, Harry Bradbeer
Writers Gary Mitchell, Susie McClelland

Cast

Stuart Graham

as Kyle

Patrick O'Kane

as Freddie

Laine Megaw

as Sandra

Conor Grimes

as Dougie

Alan McKee

as Mac

Lalor Roddy

as Heck

Gerard Jordan

as Soup

Packy Lee

as Wee Rab

Moya O'Hara

as Sadie

Sean Kearns

as Norman

Dick Holland

as Herbie

Colum Convey

as Larry

David Hayman

as Alec

Tom Magill

as Al

Tom Collins

as Browner