Fresh from her acclaimed play Narvik winning last year’s Best New Play Award at the UK Theatre Awards, playwright and songwriter Lizzie Nunnery is to première her new play with songs, To Have To Shoot Irishmen.
Inspired by the true story of Francis Sheehy Skeffington, an Irish nationalist and pacifist who was murdered during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, it is set to explore fractured national identity and the violent legacy of British military intervention in Ireland.
The production will merge fictional scenes with historic document and traditional songs with original music and movement to create a performance that interrogates history to ask contemporary questions.
In the North West, it will tour to Liverpool Everyman Theatre (25 to 27 October) and The Arts Centre at Edge Hill University (6 November).