The Shadow of a Gunman
From: Thursday, 30th September 2004
To: Saturday, 6 November 2004
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Synopsis
Revival of O'Casey's grim tragi-comedy. Set in a tenement building in the Dublin slums of the 1920s the play charts the daily life of its occupants as they talk, dream and spin out their lives under the shadow of the infamous Black and Tans.
Our Review:
5 October 2004
Seumas Shields, the well-read pedlar with a touch of Jaques-like philosophical bitterness says: "... I draw the line when I hear the gunmen blowin' about dyin' for the people, when it's the people that are dyin' for the gunmen!" The contemporary reference is clear enough on a day when news bulletins have recorded yet more civilian deaths in Iraq. But, in case we've missed the connection, the programme contains a loose sheet quoting an article written by journalist Richard Norton-Taylor about British troops accused of killing non-combatant Iraqis.
The Shadow of a Gunman, first produced in Dublin in 1923, fits snugly into the Tricycle's preoccupation with up-to-the-minute politics, most recently with Justifying War, based on the Hutton inquiry, and Guantanamo, about the treatment of Muslim prisoners by the Americans.
But Sean O'Casey's play, his first to be accepted after a number of rejections by t...
Cast
Aidan McArdle
Frank McCusker
Michael O'Hagan
Patrick Brennan
Nick Danan
John Dougall
Paul Lloyd
Maggie McCarthy
Jane Murphy
Marion O'Dwyer
Creative
Sean O'Casey (Author)
Tricycle Theatre (Producer)
Dominic Dromgoole (Director)
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