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The Grown-Ups

OVERVIEW

  • Playwright

    Nicholas Kelly 

  • Setting

    An apartment in a city. Later, a back room in a bar.

  • Synopsis

    A meditation on the ills of contemporary Dublin society centring on Alan who's the manager of a swanky bar called Arcadia. His girlfriend is an insufferable consumerist who may be cheating on him with his boss, his sister has been sacked from her teaching job for assaulting a student and her boyfriend is a grandstanding bar-room poet.

  • Play Type

    Plays General

    Number Of Acts

    Full-Length

  • Cast Size Male

    3

  • Cast Size Female

    2

ORIGINAL PRODUCTION

Original Cast  
Amy Fionnuala Murphy
Stephen Stephen Brennan (1)
Alan Jonathan Forbes
Nicola Leigh Arnold
Scott Dan Colley
Production Team  
Director Gerard Stembridge
Set Designer Sinead O'Hanlon
Costumes Suzanne Cave
Sound Designer Eddie Breslin
Assistant Stage Manager Elizabeth Gerhardy
Company Stage Manager Stephen Dempsey
Graphic Design Red Dog Design
Photography Ros Kavanagh
Voice Coach Andrea Ainsworth

PUBLISHED SCRIPTS

RIGHTS INFORMATION

  • Territory

    All Territories

  • Rights Type

    All Rights

  • Contact

    Abbey Theatre/Amharclann na Mainistreach

  • Address

    26 Lower Abbey Street
    Dublin 1
    Co. Dublin
    Republic of Ireland

  • Phone

    + 353 (0)1 887 2200

  • Email

    info@abbeytheatre.ie

  • Website

    www.abbeytheatre.ie

SOURCE OF INFORMATION

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme