The Whiteheaded Boy

Name: The Whiteheaded Boy
Start: 2026-06-10
End: 2026-07-25
Location: Abbey Theatre

Wednesday, 10 June 2026 - Saturday, 25 July 2026

Event times:

19:30

Event location:

Abbey Theatre

Event price:

€15.00

About this event

The table is set for Denis, arriving home from Dublin where he’s studying Medicine at Trinity College – a source of enormous pride for his besotted mother and of great resentment to his five other siblings.

But when word comes that he may have failed his exams again, the final straw breaks. Threats of deportation, lawsuits, bribes and counter-bribes escalate, as the family twist the fate of their whiteheaded boy to suit themselves.

Award-winning director Annie Ryan re-imagines this bawdy and bold Irish classic with a contemporary eye and a sharp feminist wink to the past. Notions abound! Ages 12+yrs.

Mon – Sat 7.30pm

Sat matinees 2pm

Wed matinee 2pm, 8 and 22 July

approx. 2 hours and 15 minutes, including an interval

Tickets: €15 – €54 plus booking fee

Readers are advised to check with the venue before relying on the details published here.

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