Poor Beast in the Rain
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 4M, 2F
- ISBN: 9781854594716
A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.
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Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
Published in volume The Wexford Trilogy
A slice of small-town life, set in a betting shop in Wexford. Part of Billy Roche's acclaimed Wexford Trilogy.
Eileen works in her father's betting shop, surrounded by the 'left behind'. Molly, Steven and Joe manage to keep their regrets about the past safely locked away, and the young Georgie is ready to turn his back on the outside world and follow their example, until the return of the legendary Danger Doyle. Having turned his back on the cycle of missed opportunities to run away to London with Eileen's mother, he now offers Eileen the possibility of escape.
Billy Roche's play Poor Beast in the Rain was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in November 1989.
REVIEWS:
"The full flavour of small-town Irish life, with all its bitter-sweet comedy, its grudging compassion and its lethal inertia."
Time Out
Premiere Production:
Bush Theatre, London, 1989.
Characters
- Casting: 4M, 2F
