DOI: 10.5040/9780571286157.00000005
Acts: 3.
Roles:
Male (2)
, Female (4)
, Neutral (0)
Set in 1950s Cardiff, The Sleepers Den presents the struggle of the desperate Shannon family who, vulnerable and powerless, live in squalor and must fend for themselves in this story of everyday survival.
Peter Gill’s The Sleepers Den premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in February 1965 and was revived on 18 November 1969.