OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  John B. Keane 

• Setting

  The action takes place in the recreation room of a six-bed hotel in a large construction job in the North of England.

• Synopsis

  Hut 42 takes a look at the lives of those men, mostly Irish, who populated workers hostels in Britain through the forties, fifties and sixties

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  7

• Female

  1

• Total

  8

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  12 November 1962

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Produced at the Queen's Theatre.

Source Of Information

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