Johnny Hanrahan
Ben Johnson
Set in the Irish midlands in the 1980s.
Volpone or The Three Chord Trick is a country and western musical about political skullduggery in the midlands. Val Fox is a sitting TD and ex-showband star. Val's handler Bosco Ellis claims that cancer has struck Val and that he's not long for this world. This sets in train a cycle of betrayal and deceit that has all Val's political rivals treble-crossing each other and themselves.
Adaptation/Translation
Full-Length
8
2
10
03 March 1988
Produced by Meridian Theatre Company
Granary Theatre
c/o RevereSouth DouglasCorkRepublic of Ireland
johnny.hanrahan@gmail.com
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The information for this entry was supplied by a member of Meridian Theatre Company. Additional information was taken from the 1990 Dublin Theatre Festival Programme.