The Silver Tassie
From: Tuesday, 14th September 2010
To: Saturday, 18 September 2010
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
The Silver Tassie follows the fortunes of a group of young men and their families at the time of the First World War. Leaving for the trenches, Harry Heegan and his friends are euphoric: they have won the football cup - the silver tassie - and believe themselves invincible. In music at once visceral and tender, Turnage evokes the spectral domain of the battlefield and the shattered lives of the returning men.
Our Review:
15 September 2010
While undeniably epic in the writing and impressively epic in the staging, this rare production of Sean O’Casey's passionate anti-war play-with-music, is more historic document than entertainment for today.
It’s from renowned Irish company Druid - again opening their short British tour at The Lowry – and they are again a superb ensemble. But the play is a ragbag of comic turns, surreal sketches, satire, music hall and lots else that simply doesn’t gel.
At its heart is an examination of the traumas of war for those who have survived it. Soldier friends Harry and Barney are in Dublin, on leave from the Western Front. In a brief respite for the lads, Harry captains the local football team to victory before they return to the horrors of the First World War trenches.
Then comes the aftermath for the survivors, as a now crippled Harry faces a bleak future, hopes destroyed by his disability and a feckless girlfriend.
A cast ...
Creative
Mark-Anthony Turnage (Music)
Amanda Holden (Lyrics)
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