OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Jack Harte 

• Setting

  All the action of the play takes place in a pre-fab classroom of a school in West Dublin, the classroom of a teacher called Donie. The time alternates between 1990s and the 1970s.

• Synopsis

  Alan thinks he has stumbled into a nightmare, and so he has, but is it his own nightmare or the country's? Out of this nightmare there is no exit but through the gateway of truth where crimes are named and punished, where the consequences of those crimes can be purged, where shattered lives can be re-assembled through the agency of love. Cosy national myopias, from the acceptance of the state's foundation myth to the tolerance of so-called 'Republican' crime, are dissected and put on trial, and the rationale behind them is exposed to judgement.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  1

• Total

  4

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  24 August 2015

• Production Notes

  Produced by Parthalonians Theatre Productions.

• Original Venue

  The New Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.