On the outside
By: Tom Murphy
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Description: It is the evening of the Teacher's Union dance, and Joe and Frank cannot afford to get in. Frank is on a promise with a young teacher named Anne, whom he has had to avoid meeting beforehand lest she find out he cannot afford to get in. These tradesmen's apprentices are embarrassed by their lack of funds and try every trick they can think of to get in, but spend the whole play outside the doors, seething over the 6 shillings entrance fee, and the chastity their poverty has thrust on them. 'On the Outside' was first performed at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in September 1974.
Notes: Originally published: in print in Plays four. London: Methuen Drama, 1997.