It is sad to note the death of Aideen O’Kelly last month. She began her career with the Abbey Theatre in 1964 playing Mrs Gogan in The Plough and the Stars. She notably played Fionnuala in Red Roses for Me in addition to many other roles at the Abbey.
In the 1980s she moved to New York and achieved acclaim for her acting on Broadway.
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.
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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.
The article looks at how W.B. Yates defended the play and importance of the ability to accept failings and ambiguities as a mark of a mature nation.
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