Dog House
By Gina Moxley
Age range
13 – 15, 16 +
Cast size
10 – 15
Approx. running time
60 – 90 mins
Gender breakdown
Male: 6
Female: 7
Female: 7
Setting
Suburbs of Cork. 1990's.
Note
A one-act play for a medium sized group.
First performance
First performed by Connections 1997.
Synopsis
This is a tragi-comic piece, unsentimental and brave to the point of recklessness in its theme and its honesty about young people's behaviour. Here we have smoking, drinking and swearing and young love at all stages, from blushing embarrassment to unmarried, teenage parenthood. The cycle of friendship and romance in Lime Lawn is uninterrupted by the arrival of new neighbours -The Flying Saucers - until the fear and brutality they live under becomes apparent. Inspired by the death of Kelly Fitzgerald in 1993.
Published with Cuba by Liz Lockhead by Faber & Faber Stanley Thornes ISBN 0-571-20686-7.
Published with Cuba by Liz Lockhead by Faber & Faber Stanley Thornes ISBN 0-571-20686-7.