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Sucking Dublin

  • Enda Walsh
  • Short Play, Drama, 1990s
  • 2M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9781854593986

A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

  • Short Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1990s
  • Target Audience: Young Adult, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
A fierce and uncompromising short play about a group of five individuals tormented by a rape in a claustrophobic, drug-infested Dublin.

Enda Walsh's play Sucking Dublin was first performed by the Outreach Department of the Abbey Theatre at Basin Lane Youth Reach Centre in Dublin in 1997. It also played at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in Trinity College, Dublin, from 4 November 1997.

Sucking Dublin is available in the volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin.

REVIEWS:

"A unique talent, and it's a struggle not to use the G-word to describe the writing."

 Examiner

Premiere Production: Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1997.
  • Casting: 2M, 3F