
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 Kyle

as Freddie

as Sandra

as Joe

as Dougie

as Mac

as Heck

as Soup

as Bap

as Wee Rab

as Bap

as Sadie

as Norman

as Herbie

as Larry

as Alec

as Al

as Browner