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A Whistle in the Dark is a play by Tom Murphy that premiered in 1961 at London having been rejected in no uncertain terms by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. Murphy was twenty-four years old at the time. It tells the story in three acts of the climactic confrontation between Michael, the oldest of the Carney sons, and his father and brothers, a brawling, hard-drinking, criminal gang of Irish immigrants living and working in Coventry. A powerful portrayal of tribal violence and the devastation it brings in its wake in spite of attempts to stand against it, it remains Murphy's best known and most performed play. Its influence can be seen in works such as Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, Gary Mitchell's In A Little World Of Our Own and Rod Wooden's Your Home In The West.
Canadian productions
In 2005, The Company Theatre[1] in Toronto chose the play for its launch at the Berkeley Street Theatre. The production was helmed by Irish director Jason Byrne and starred Joseph Ziegler, Jonathan Goad, Allan Hawco, Philip Riccio and Sarah Dodd.
It was named “Best of 2005” in Canadian newspapers including the Globe and Mail, National Post, NOW Magazine, and eye weekly. National Post called it a “masterpiece production of a masterpiece play”.
It also received two nominations for Dora Mavor Moore[2] awards, specifically Outstanding Production and Outstanding Lead Performance Male for Joseph Ziegler.
In 2007, The Company Theatre remounted A WHISTLE IN THE DARK with the same director and most of the same cast. It played at LSPU Hall in St. John’s, Newfoundland in March and at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto in April of that year.
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