Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled
People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a
language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant,
and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, control and
identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it
means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German
below." An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by
forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries
to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry.
The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the
street who persecute him with taunts of Nazism. Above all he must
free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his
mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs.
Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural
entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between
Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of
what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation
but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents'
wardrobe have been laid bare.
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