Arts Week with Judy Murphy

Sean O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy, The Plough and the Stars, The Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock, will be staged by Druid Theatre at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival in what the company describes as “its most ambitious production yet”.

Details of the project were announced at a launch in Druid Theatre on Monday and at the GPO in Dublin on Tuesday.

These dramas cover the turbulent years from 1916 to the Civil War, with Druid planning to weave them “into an epic theatrical event of conflict, national identity and the human toll of war”.

Directed by the company’s Artistic Director, Garry Hynes, the three plays will be performed together in one day, “drawing parallels between an Irish past and an international present”. There will also be a limited number of single-play performances.

What’s being billed as ‘DruidO’Casey’ will begin with The Plough and the Stars. It’s the story of newly married couple, Jack and Nora Clitheroe, living in a Dublin which is on the brink of rebellion in 1916.

In The Shadow of a Gunman, Donal Davoren, Seumas Shields and Minnie Powell find themselves tragically caught up in the Irish War of Independence. Finally, in Juno and the Paycock the Boyle family see their fortunes dashed amid the trauma of the Civil War.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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