Following on from the Gate’s sell-out Summer hit of 2018 The Snapper returns for a limited 9 week run to the Gate in 2019. Roddy Doyle's second instalment of the celebrated Barrytown trilogy is a story that remains fresh, vivid, funny, astute and relevant for today. It also gives working-class Northside stories a rare opportunity to be heard on the Gate stage. The Gate also has another interesting connection to this story – the theatre sits right next door to the Rotunda hospital where Sharon’s baby, the Snapper – the title character of the novel - was born.