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An Chomhairle Ealaíon Playography In English

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Amphibians

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  • Drámadóir

    Billy Roche 

  • Achoimre

    Old superstitions survive throughout the world, but nowhere as strongly as among the men who work the fishing boats in the Irish town of Wexford. The shoals of herring have long since left the local waters and the fisherman are now reduced to working in a local mussel-packing factory. Eagle, however, remains a true independent, a lone individual clinging to the sea, struggling to keep the old traditions alive in a fast-changing world. Now in his forties, many of the local customs have died out with his generation and the younger men who have followed have become disaffected, having nothing of the spirit which once meant `belonging'. The last of a dying breed, Eagle proudly holds on to his past despite knowing that he will soon be forced to leave the freedom of the sea for the factory floor. Before he does, however, he decides to revive an old local rite of passage ritual for his own son, Issac: a night spent alone on an uninhabited offshore island. It proves to be a gesture which awakens both envy and scorn from the local community, opening up past secrets which have helped to shape the present.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Cast size

  • Male

    7

  • Female

    3

  • Total

    10

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    03 September 1992

  • Leiriú

    Produced by Royal Shakespeare Company

  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    First presented at The Pit in the Barbican, London.

  • Nótaí Faoin gCéadléiriú Éireannach

    A revised version of the script was presented by Tin Drum Theatre Company at the YMCA, Wexford on June 1st, 1998.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Eagle Ian McElhinney
Sonia Lesley Maguire
Brian Richard Bonneville
Dribbler Albie Woodington
Bridie Hilary Cromie
Isaac Kevin Burke
Broaders Sean Murray
Mosey Liam O'Callaghan
Zac Barry Lynch
Humpy Lalor Roddy
Veronica Jane Gurnett
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Michael Attenborough
Dearthóir Michael Taylor

Scripteanna Foilsithe

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The information for this entry was taken from the published script.