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Dateline: 6th August, 2004
Tricycle to Revive O'Casey Play Kilburn's Tricycle Theatre is to revive the first part of Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy, The Shadow of a Gunman. First performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1923, it arises out of O'Casey's own experience when the Mountjoy Square apartment he was living in was raided by the Black and Tans. Set in a tenement building in the Dublin slums, May 1920, The Shadow of a Gunman charts the daily lives of its occupants: the peddlar, Seumas Shields, and the poet, Donal Davoren. They talk, dream and spin out their lives under the shadow of the infamous Black and Tans. Farcical comedy combines with the tragedy of lives lived under the threatening hand of an occupying power. The production, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, opens on 30th September and runs to 6th November. The play was made into a TV series in 1995 starring Kenneth Branagh as Donal and Stephen Rea as Seumus. The other two plays in the trilogy are Juno and the Paycock, considered by many to be his greatest, and The Plough and the Stars, about the Dublin Easter rising, which caused enormous controversy - and riots - because it criticised the idealsim of the nationalists, although O'Casey was a fervent nationalist himself, having been General Secretary of the Irish Citizen Army in 1914. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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