OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Paul Mercier 

• Notes

  Native City was presented alongside Buddleia and Kitchensink (both listed separately) as the third part of The Dublin Trilogy.

• Synopsis

  Set in a disused church, the play opens with a group of Dublin football fans who encounter two Bosnian refugees and behave in a racist manner towards them. The action works its way back through the twentieth century, and rave parties make way for the more sedate concert hall performances of the fifties and sixties. We are transported back, through the Second World War, to 1916, to the First World War, and then to the earliest days of the century when Queen Victoria arrived in Dublin to an ecstatic reception from the Royal subjects in what was then regarded as the second city of the Empire.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  75

• Female

  32

• Total

  107

• Cast Notes

  Cast doubling is possible. See original production for details. Members of the original cast also played a variety of ensemble roles.

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  13 October 1998

• Producer

  Produced by Passion Machine

• Original Venue

  Tivoli Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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