OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Robert Ellison 

• Author Notes

  Written under the pseudonym Robert Packer.

• Setting

  One weekend in 1982 between Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man.

• Synopsis

  Jimmy Blizzard is a self-made man dealing in video games and other amusement equipment. He is a hardened survivor but is faced with a combination of pressures he is unable to handle. Those pressures are not unique to any place or time but have an undeniably marked relevance to life as lived in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  06 October 1983

• Producer

  Produced by Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

• Original Venue

  Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach
  

• Venue Notes

  Produced on the Peacock Stage.

Source Of Information

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