OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Vincent Woods 

• Setting

  Set in County Leitrim. Three years pass between the first and second piece.

• Notes

  John Hughdy and Tom John was subsequently rewritten and restaged by Skehana productions as 'On the Way Out' in 2002.

• Synopsis

  John Hughdy and Tom John comprises two short companion plays. John Hughdy is a natural showman who delights in people and delights in shocking them. He is a storyteller, an easy conversationalist, someone who would talk to himself or to the cat or the dog and think nothing of it. Tom John is isolated in a way that his father never was: he is one of those young men who can be found lonely at bar-counters in small towns or drunk in their empty fields with no one to go home to.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  One Act

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  1

• Total

  3

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  04 July 1991

• Producer

  Produced by Druid

• Original Venue

  The Mick Lally Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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