Cricklewood Cowboys tells the story of a group of Irish emigrant working on the building sites around London in the 1970’s. The play examines, in a warts and all way, the construction industry over a period of twenty years. and casts a beady on eye on proceeding in a darkly humorous fashion.

Press comments

"It is nice to see a play which mentions the IRA only once, and doesn’t portray all Gaels as silver-tongued dreamers and poets, and this is a frequently amusing and thoroughly thought-provoking piece.” What’s On

"It is a refreshingly unsentimental study of workers in the construction industry who seem to spend more time in the pub and betting shop than on the building site. “The humour is as black as the Guinness they drink. There is no comforting luck of the Irish in O’Brien’s dark vision.” The Stage