OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Shane Burke (2) 

• Setting

  St. Patrick's week. Limerick city. 1965.

• Synopsis

  Ernesto 'Che' Guevara visits the hotel owned by a famed Irish rebel, but for Frank, the hotel porter, things have never been so grim. The guests get stranger by the day: a horse trader claiming to be Guevara's cousin, a mysterious holy man who sees apparitions, an interpreter with an ulterior motive. The hotel's 'good name' is at stake. Hot water bottles are exploding, plots are being hatched. Everyone is in the crossfire...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  5

• Female

  1

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  27 August 2012

• Production Notes

  Produced by Run Amok Theatre.

• Original Venue

  The New Theatre
  

Source Of Information

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