'Down The Line' & 'The Hunt For Red Willie'

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Two new plays that premiered on the Peacock Stage at the Abbey Theatre in 2000

Down the Line: Dubliners Eve and James Walsh have reared four children. Almost. They have a son who took off to London, a daughter who can't go any further than the front gates without feeling homesick, a younger son orbiting the planet and a younger daughter who is the family's last great hope. A warm and irresistible story of suburban family life by the author of the award-winning Dublin Trilogy, Down the Line premired on the Peacock Stage of the Abbey Theatre on 28 September 2000.

THE HUNT FOR RED WILLIE

On a remote stretch of bog in County Donegal in 1829, a local landlord meets his end while in pursuit of the notorious Red Willie. Foul play is suspected and the hunt is on. A farcical romp that casts a warm side-long glance at some of the classic plays of Irish theatre, The Hunt for Red Willie premiered on the Peacock Stage of the Abbey Theatre on 23 November 2000.

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Ken Bourke is an Irish playwright whose plays include Wild Harvest (1989) produced by Druid, The Tide Can Wait (1990) produced by Tinderbox, The Well (1993), Fixing Bill Haley (1995), The Narrow Ground (1993), The Beloved (1995), The House in Gortnashee (1999), The Mourning Ring, The Comer Story (1997), Strangers (1997), Breathing Space (1998), The Ballad of Rory Roe (2000) and The Hunt for Red Willie, first performed at the Peacock Theatre, in 2000. Paul Mercier is Artistic Director of Passionatee Machine Theatre Company for which he has written and directed ten plays - Drowning, Wasters, Studs, Spacers, Home, Pilgrims, Buddleia, Kitchensink, Native City and We Ourselves. He wrote and directed two short films Before I Sleep and Lipservice. Down the Line was commissioned by the Irish National Theatre (Abbey and Peacock Theatres) and published by Methuen Drama in 2000.