The Abbey Theatre has announced its forthcoming co production of The Shadow of a Gunman with the Lyric Theatre Belfast. The production will run from Friday, 12 June 2015 to Saturday, 1 August 2015.
The production will be directed by Wayne Jordan and feature Mark O’Halloran as Donal Davoren, David Ganly as Seamus Shields and Amy McAllister as Minnie Powell.
Tickets are available via the Abbey Theatre. Buy online now.
This wonderful video by Near TV Productions is a record by the people of the East Wall of the celebrations they arranged to commemorated the 50th year of Sean O’Casey’s death on September the 18th 2014.
It is a fascinating piece that brings to life the time that Sean lived and worked in the area. The people of the Sean O’Casey Community Centre give readings from the autobiographies and act out scenes from the plays and autobiographies; well chosen and well acted.
It is very moving indeed to see. Thanks to Mairéad Ní Choísóig, all the people of the Sean O’Casey Community Centre and the East Wall for remembering Sean’s anniversary and filling it with life.
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It was not unreasonable to expect that the Abbey would mark the [tenth] anniversary [of the Easter Rising] respectfully. Instead it presented Seán O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars, which presented the Rising through the experiences of those who suffered most in Easter Week: the Dublin slum dwellers unwillingly thrust on to the frontline. And it suggested that, for them, the great event had brought nothing but deeper misery.
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