Buzzin' To Bits
By Mark O'Rowe
Age range
11 – 13, 13 – 15, 16 +
Cast size
10 – 15
Approx. running time
90 mins +
Gender breakdown
Male: 8
Female: 6
Female: 6
Setting
Estate Playground.
Note
An urban comic drama for a large cast.
Published in Playshare – Volume 1 (NAYD).
Published in Playshare – Volume 1 (NAYD).
First performance
Dublin Youth Theatre in 1997.
Synopsis
It's Tallaght 1997 in the estate and 'de girls' are just hangin' out in the playground after school, chewing the fat and comparing notes (not of the school kind). Trouble is, neither they nor the lads will be left in peace because Peadar and Jimmy (the original Tallaght cowboys with hurley sticks) are determined to rid the estate of drugs by whatever means. A classic play about young people caught up in the Dublin anti-drug vigilante movement. Rapid-fire exchanges drive this play along with grittiness, naturalism and a bundle of laughs.