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Bart Players – The Whiteheaded Boy – A comedy in three acts by Lennox Robinson
“The Whiteheaded Boy” is set in a typical Irish small-town household which is thrown into a frenzy, as the play begins, with the return of son Denis from Dublin’s Trinity College. He is the whiteheaded boy of the title – the apple of his mother’s eye and the butt of his siblings’ resentment as a result – who, we learn, has just failed his exams. Rather than face the shame of this failure, the family plan to ship him off to Canada; he just wants to marry his sweetheart, get a job and settle down in the country. Hijinks, marriage proposals, bribes and counter-bribes ensue as the family members exploit and misinterpret Denis’ situation. Simple on the surface, the play is in fact a pointed analysis of Irish culture that remains eerily relevant today.
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