Happy Birthday Jacob is the story of two brothers, Jacob and Lucas, who, after being abandoned at a young age, have been forced to develop a life which consists of secrecy and strict routine. The story exists between the father leaving and the foreboding imminence of his return. That is until Mary, their mother, arrives abruptly, which slowly severs the bond between the two brothers. Lucas’s fantastical notions of a family reunited directly clashes with Jacob’s embodied reality of rejection and abandonment. Jacob with the help of Terry a neighbouring girl try to keep this constructed family afloat while Lucas drifts towards an idea that he has only been able fantasise. Time is ticking closer to Jacob’s 18th birthday, a day in which everything that has been built must fall.
Happy Birthday Jacob is an original play by Michael Marshall and this is PÚCA’s debut production
Michael Marshall – Writer and Director
Ciara Murnane – Producer and Set Designer
Cast and Creatives
Michael Marshall
Writer and Director
Ciara Murnane
Producer and Set Designer
Sean Basil Crawford
Cast (Jacob Dooley)
Finian Duff Lennon
Cast (Lucas Dooley)
Karen Kelly
Cast (Terry McMahon)
Maree Jane Duffy
Cast (Mary Dooley)
Mary Sheehan
Costume Design
Bill Woodland
Lighting and Sound Design
Ciara Gallagher
Stage Manager
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