OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Jim Nolan 

• Setting

  Red Iron Railway Bridge, Waterford in September 2017.

• Notes

  The production featured a version of the song 'Red Sails in the Sunset', arranged by Mark Fitzgerald and performed by the Barrack Street Concert Band. 

• Synopsis

  As crowds gather on Waterford’s Quay to greet the county’s vanquished All-Ireland hurling team the now middle-aged members of a teenage gang return to the city’s long abandoned Red Iron Bridge to remember their recently deceased friend. The revelation of events surrounding the former hurling star’s death and the unexpected return of a long-exiled associate unravel the cords that bind the gang and expose the fragile nature of a thirty-year old friendship...

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  2

• Total

  6

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  12 November 2019

• Producer

  Produced by Red Kettle Theatre Company

• Original Venue

  Garter Lane Arts Centre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the play's original production programme and correspondence with the playwright.