Series: NHB Modern Plays

Imprint: Nick Hern Books

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

Tags:

Modern drama (post-1945)

First Staged:
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1997

Sucking Dublin

By Enda Walsh

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

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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.

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Series: NHB Modern Plays

Imprint: Nick Hern Books

Published in volume Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin

Tags:

Modern drama (post-1945)

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