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Seán O’Casey

October 2024

  • Aisling Kearns, J Smith-Cameron, Mark Rylance and Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty in Juno and the Peacock.

    Juno and the Paycock review – Mark Rylance delights as a drunken fantasist Dubliner

    Rylance is entertainingly Chaplinesque as a dissolute husband in Seán O’Casey’s 1924 tragicomedy, but Succession’s J Smith-Cameron is its heart and soul as the long-suffering wife

May 2024

  • J Smith-Cameron and Mark Rylance.

    Succession’s J Smith-Cameron to star opposite Mark Rylance in Juno and the Paycock

    Actors to play the lead roles in Matthew Warchus’s centenary West End revival of Seán O’Casey’s Irish civil war classic

July 2023

  • Sophie Lenglinger as Nora, in a yellow dress, with Liam Heslin as Jack, in shirt sleeves and waistcoat, their arms round each other, in The Plough and the Stars.

    DruidO’Casey review – Seán O’Casey’s Dublin trilogy in a day is a revelation

    O’Casey’s three plays of working-class Dublin life encompass conflict, grief and the human spirit in Garry Hynes’s fine production

December 2021

  • Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan in Druid's Three Short Comedies by Seán O'Casey. Photo by Ste Murray.

    Three Short Comedies review – Seán O’Casey’s rebels kick up a farce

    Druid theatre’s cast go all out for the ridiculous in this rarely performed triple bill, delivered with music hall flair

February 2021

  • Firemen dealing with the aftermath of the rioting in Lisburn, County Down, following the assassination of RIC officer Oswald Swanzy in 1920.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the Irish war of independence

    Novelist Ciarán McMenamin picks histories and fiction by authors from Frank O’Connor to Roddy Doyle that best reflect the revolutionary conflict a century ago

November 2018

  • The Silver Tassie conducted by Mark Anthony Turnage at the Barbican with the BBC SO on the 10th November 2018

    The Silver Tassie review – superb, fiery outing for Turnage's first world war masterpiece

    This concert staging of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera based on Sean O’Casey’s play was forcefully conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth and sung by a consistently strong cast

April 2014

  • Ronan Raferty as Harry Heegan in The Silver Tassie

    The Silver Tassie review – a fine revival of O'Casey's tumultuous play

    Howard Davies brilliantly handles Seán O'Casey's blend of Dublin realism and expressionism, writes Michael Billington

October 2013

  • Sean O'Casey at his desk.

    The Rising of Bella Casey by Mary Morrissy – review

    His sister Bella hardly featured in Sean O'Casey's autobiography but Morrissy fills in the missing years

August 2010

  • The Plough and the Stars

    Abbey, Dublin
    Confidently expressive touches vie with laborious pacing in a decent revival of Seán O'Casey's critique of romantic nationalism, writes Helen Meany

September 2006

  • Sean O'Casey's lost play resurfaces after 80 years

    A lost play by the Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey has been rediscovered more than 80 years after it disappeared.

March 2006

  • Shadow play

    Sean O'Casey electrified Dublin's stages with his violent scenes of Irish life. Could he repeat the trick when he moved to London? As two of his little-known late works return to the stage, Colm Tóibín finds out.

February 2000

  • Triumph from the trenches

    The Silver Tassie
    London Coliseum
    Rating: * * * * *
    Sean O'Casey's great anti-war play has always had its problems: it was rejected by Yeats for the Abbey Theatre on the grounds it lacked "unity of action" and it has always seemed to be a volatile mix of expressionism and realism.

September 1999

  • Juno and the Paycock

    So what's it to be? The Gaiety or the Donmar? Only 10 days after Garry Hynes's production of Sean O'Casey's play opens in Dublin, John Crowley's revival bows in in London. The strange thing is, they complement each other perfectly: Hynes's version plays up the laughs, while Crowley offers a sombre, tragic reading of the play. I'd say the clear winner is O'Casey, whose multi-hued masterpiece can yield such wildly variant readings.

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