Inspired by a real-life encounter that sounds full of more coincidences that
anything in the play itself, Emmet Kirwan writes and performs
Dublin
Oldschool, the story of a drug-fuelled Bank Holiday weekend during a heatwave.
Kirwan plays Jason, a record shop employee in his late twenties who holds onto the hope
of becoming a DJ, and is prone to letting people take advantage of him on the
promise of helping with this career change. This particular weekend he's been told
he can do a set if he takes care of a visiting superstar DJ's "entertainment" needs, but that's just one of a series of incidents as he keeps trying different drugs to
keep him from actually having to go home. Over the three days he keeps bumping into
a homeless heroin addict: His older brother Daniel, who's returned to Dublin after
several years missing.
