OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Arthur Riordan  Declan Hughes  Pom Boyd 

• Setting

  Temple Bar, Dublin, in 1979 and 1999.

• Synopsis

  A property developer on the make, a pair of rural hucksters, a degradation-driven TD and a supporting cast of thieves, punks, hookers and cannibals are thrown together on a Dublin street on the day of the Pope's visit in 1979. Twenty years on, that street and those characters are barely recognisable, all slicked up and ready for the millennium.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  19

• Female

  7

• Total

  26

• Cast Notes

  Cast doubling is possible. Some cross-casting is also necessary. See original production for details.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  06 October 1999

• Producer

  Produced by Rough Magic Theatre Company In association with Dublin Theatre Festival

• Original Venue

  Meeting House Square
  

• Venue Notes

  Boomtown was a site-specific performed in a specially constructed enclosed venue.

Source Of Information

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