The IRISH PREMIERE of 'WEEPIE' is a startling blend of the savage and the sublime.  While this might sound gloomy, the play is not... much of it is hilarious.  In November 1994, two nineteen year old, upper middle class students Richard Elsey and Jamie Petrolini were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Mohammed el-Sayed.  The victim had been stabbed 16 times in an attack which began as he waited in his car at traffic lights.  There was no obvious reason for the murder.  The victim was unknown to the perpetrators and there was no racial motive.  The killing destabilised notions of respectability and bewildered public and media alike.  In an audacious mix of tense drama and hilarious comedy, 'WEEPIE' addresses that bewilderment, pulling apart youthful notions of masculinity in a heady mix of absurd ritual, eroticism, magic realism and hard-hitting drama.

Contains Nudity and Strong Language.       Not suitable for persons under 16 years of age.