Home, Boys, Home

By Dermott Bolger

Civic Theatre, Dublin 1st - 12th Oct 2024.

After decades abroad, Shane returns to a multicultural Ireland he barely recognises. But he discovers surprising links: an unknown daughter, a black teenage grandson trying to define his identity, and gangland figures threatening the boy’s future.

Can he protect this grandson who is unaware of his existence and can they both find ways to feel they truly belong here?

Home, Boys, Home completes a unique trilogy that started with In High Germany in the 1990 Dublin Theatre Festival: three standalone plays, written fifteen years apart, recounting the lives of three friends, as emigrants abroad and now as returnees to Ireland.

Writer: Dermot Bolger

Director: Raymond Keane

Producer: Melissa Nolan

Stage Manager: Marella Boschi

Set Designer: Robert Ballagh

Lighting Designer: Conleth White

Costume Designer: Marie Tierney

Photographer/ Videographer: Ste Murray

Duration: 90 min. No interval

Age Suitability: 16+. 

Contains Strong Language

Originally commissioned by the Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon with key support by Dublin City Council.

Funded by Dublin City Council & Civic Theatre.

Speckintime in association with Civic Theatre.