Third Class - A Titanic Story

Sat Mar 28 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:10 pm UTC+00:00

2-4 Great Victoria St, BT2 7HR Belfast, United Kingdom | Belfast

The Grand Opera House, Belfast
Publisher/HostThe Grand Opera House, Belfast
Third Class - A Titanic Story
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The true story of Titanic survivor, Edward Dorking
“The White Star Line merged itself out of existence. Those clever little educated boys.”
A one-man theatre show based on the life of Titanic survivor, Edward Dorking.
Edward was gay. Openly gay, and on Wednesday, April 10th, 1912, he set sail for NYC on a ticket bought for him by his parents in the hope his American family could put him 'right'.
Third Class charts Edward's journey from boarding the Titanic to swimming for 30 minutes towards an already full collapsible lifeboat and how he, upon arriving in New York would tour the Vaudeville circuit, recreating the stories for a fact-hungry public.
But Edward didn't want fame; he wanted revenge. When everyone was talking about the deaths of millionaires and society figures, few were discussing the people who took the lion's share of the losses that night: the third class.
Using music, movement, projection, and historical facts, Third Class tells the story of an unknown hero from a well-known story.
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2-4 Great Victoria St, BT2 7HR Belfast, United Kingdom, 10 Great Victoria Street, Belfast, BT2 7BA, United Kingdom

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