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THE LADS – DRAMA ABOUT IRISH AMERICANS – a modern day Irish folk tale
To catch you up: THE LADS who jointly owned THE PUB in Queens were:
Sean Cleary. Sean passed the bar after completing
a correspondence course on the law, paid for by Mick Flaherty,
the leader of The Lads. Some say that Sean never passed a bar,
but then some say that the Irish have no sense of humor, at least
that anyone not Irish can understand. Then there was Eddie O’Brien who managed the pub and managed to live upstairs rent free from The Lads in the initial contract. And Brian Doyle, the baby of the Lads – some called him Gabriel, the messenger. And finally, Mick Flaherty the oldest who led the Lads in everything they do and even thought of doing; who played the one drum in the pub with one hand with one too many.
The lads have learned that that there’s trouble brewing in the union about one of their own, Mick Flaherty, and the ongoing feud between Mick and the current union boss in this drama about Irish Americans.
In the middle of the night, Brian pounds on the pub door to waken Eddie upstairs. Brian has just learned that a pipe broke at the prison outside town where Mick’s brother, Jim, is incarcerated. Gracie Mc Donald (Mick’s sometimes girl friend) was supposed to pick up Jim in two days but he’s been released early due to the flood. Now both Jim and Gracie are nowhere to be found. The lads learn that Jim was let out of prison early due to the broken pipe as well as the threat of a
blood bath between Jim, his brother Mick and union thugs. It’s assumed that Gracie and Jim have left the area because of the rumblings of trouble on the wharf.
Still, Brian and Eddie wonder if Jim and Gracie have run away together, which would be the worse thing that could happen between the brothers and the lads.
Author: Jean Blasiar
Type: One act Play
Genre: Drama about Irish Americans, modern folk tale
Cast: 5, 4 M 1 narrator
Ages of the actors: Adult
Suitable for: Adults
Length: Forty minutes
Set: The setting is the very, very small (900 sq. ft.) pub in Queens. A bass fiddle is gathering dust in one corner of the two seater bar. The pub (aka known as Sean’s office, has two tables, one of which Sean has confiscated for his legal files.
Level of Difficulty: 7/10 – the accents may be challenging, but do not necessarily need to be used. The play is written for an all male cast but a F Narrator can be considered.
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