Productions

Toupees and Snaredrums - 1998

 
CREATED BY David Bolger & Gina Moxley
DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER David Bolger
COMPOSER/SOUND DESIGNER Bell Helicopter
SET DESIGNER Francis O'Connor
LIGHTING DESIGNER Ian Sommerville
COSTUME DESIGNER Joan O'Clery
HAIR & MAKEUP DESIGNER Val Sherlock
ORIGINAL CAST Sean Kearns, Christina Nelson, Donal Beecher, Dave O'Meara, Paul McEneaney, James Hosty, Aideen Gohery, Anne Byrne, Cindy Cummings, Raymond Keane, Charlie Bonner, Muirne Bloomer, Tony Flynn
PREMIERE DATE 16 September 1998
PREMIERE VENUE Peacock Stage, The National Theatre, Dublin
NO OF PERFS 27
SYNOPSIS
In the first ever co-production between the Abbey Theatre and a dance company, CoisCéim fuses its unique movement style with dialogue to bring to life thirteen characters in a hopeless search for love and lust after Lent. Set in 1966, TOUPEES AND SNARE DRUMS charts a disastrous night at Dizzy Duffy's dancehall, during the heyday of the showband era.