The Speckled People (Methuen Drama)

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 w...