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Purple Dust
Large Mixed Cast Male, 3 Female
"a…harum-scarum piece of low comedy and poetic rhapsody…more like a gambol than a conventional play…Mr. O'Casey's knockabout humor and his purple prose have been blended into a theatrical entertainment"…
The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays
Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre on 26 January 1907. Eggs, potatoes and even a slice of fruit cake were hurled at the actors during subsequent…
The Plough and the Stars
9 Male, 6 Female
Set in 1915-16, this is a tragic satire about the Irish Citizen Army for whom the Plough and the Stars are a symbol of their futile patriotism. The Easter rebellion brings the realisation that there is…
Pictures in the Hallway
4 Male, 2 Female
We meet O’Casey in his first skirmish with women; in the episodes and torn allegiances of the Irish rebellion; in his first job, in a bookstore, which ended disastrously; in his first acquaintance…
I Knock at the Door
4 Male, 2 Female
First of the six autobiographical volumes by Sean O’Casey. Six actors bring the sad, pithy boyhood of John Casside (O’Casey) into quick and sensitive focus His strong, resigned mother,…
Juno and the Paycock
Large Mixed Cast Male, 6 Female
A stark and unwavering tragedy which tells of Juno whose staunchness has to suffer a shiftless strutting husband. A tale that shows clearly that Irish gaiety and song are the despairing camouflage for…
Juno and the Paycock
Large Mixed Cast Male, 6 Female
A stark and unwavering tragedy which tells of Juno whose staunchness has to suffer a shiftless strutting husband. A tale that shows clearly that Irish gaiety and song are the despairing camouflage for…
Sean OCasey - Plays One - Juno and the Paycock & Within the Gates & Red Roses for Me
The first volume of Sean O'Casey's plays includes Juno and the Paycock, Within the Gates, Red Roses for Me and Cock-a-Doodle Dandy, and is introduced by Seamus Heaney "From the perspective of the 1990s…
