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Mar 23 2023

Druid’s ambitious take on O’Casey’s Dublin Trilogy

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”.

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Read the full article on the Connacht Tribune website.