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I'm Getting Out of This Kip

OVERVIEW

Playwright

Heno Magee
Setting

The action takes place in the living room of a flat in a block of corporation flats in a Dublin slum.
Play Type

Plays General

Number Of Acts

Full-Length

Cast size

Male

9
Female

4
Total

13

Original Production

Date of First Production

20 October 1972
Production Notes
Produced by the Play Circle Playwrights Workshop.
Original Venue

Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
Venue Notes

Presented on the Peacock Stage.

Original Cast
Larry Carter	John Kavanagh (1)
Sid	A. Anonymous
Mr. Conroy	Séamus Brennan (2)
Mr. Carter	Pat Layde
Betty Nolan	Leslie Lalor
Billyboy	Micheál Ó hAonghusa
Sgt. Scanlon	Geoff Golden
Mrs. Maguire	May Cluskey
Mr. Grant	Niall Buggy
Mrs. Carter	Siobhán McKenna
Jack Carter	Des Cave
The Rabbit	Brendan Cauldwell
Carol Nolan	Terry Prone

Production Team
Director	Siobhán McKenna
Lighting Designer	Leslie Scott
Stage Director	Mai McFall
Stage Manager	John McGuigan

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Source Of Information

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