OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Jim Nolan 

• Setting

  Inishshannon, a town in the Irish Midlands. The action takes place in the reporter's office of The Inishshannon Chronicle in the spring of 2016.

• Synopsis

  Set in a provincial newspaper office in the Irish Midlands in the run up to Easter 2016, the privately owned Inishshannon Chronicle has just been acquired by a media conglomerate and the new brush is about to sweep clean. As the newspaper's staff adjust to radical changes in its structure and ethos, the town it serves prepares to celebrate a tenuous connection to the Easter Rising. The revelation that this connection is not quite what it seems puts the Chronicle's editor on a collision course with both his new bosses and the local business and political community.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  3

• Female

  2

• Total

  5

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  04 March 2016

• Production Notes

  Produced with the support of Waterford City & County Council.

• Producer

  Produced by Garter Lane Arts Centre

• Original Venue

  Garter Lane Arts Centre
  

Source Of Information

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