OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Tara McKevitt 

• Setting

  A Northern Irish prison, the late 1980s.

• Notes

  Originally broadcast as a radio play, 'Grenades' won the RTÉ PJ O'Connor award in 2010. The radio version featured Tara Lynne O'Neill as Nuala and was produced by Aidan Matthews.

• Synopsis

  Northern Ireland, 1979: Nuala Kelly takes no prisoners. A tough nine-year-old living with her mother, brother and grandfather, she thinks the class bully is just a big baby, and that all the nuns are cranky old wrinkled up cronies. She loves Thin Lizzy and The Undertones - just like her big brother, Oran. He’s fifteen and thinks he’s Casanova. Nuala thinks he’s more like Jesus; she’d do anything for him. But what she does one day for her brother, no-one could ever have imagined…

  Set in a prison ten years later, Grenades focusses on how Nuala must re-live the events of her childhood to finally make sense of them all.

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Female

  1

• Total

  1

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  29 October 2010

• Producer

  Produced by Mephisto Theatre Company

• Original Venue

  Nuns Island Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was provided by a company member.