The play follows the fortunes of the impoverished Boyle family in the grim slums of Dublin during the Irish civil war of 1922-23. Representing all facts of Irish character, a gruesome death and the the grim reality of tennement life throws into relieve the Irish swagger and rhetoric of the men struggling for Irish indepence. […]
1974 – “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Big time war hero Harold Ryan returns home after being presumed dead for years. During the war he has killed hundred of men, women and animals together with his friend Colonel Harper, an aviation hero who was responsible for dropping the bomb on Nagasaki. Ryan needs to find out that his wife has found multiple […]
1973 – “Live like Pigs” by John Arden
The Sawney’s, the last members of the begging tramps of the Elizabethan Era, are evicted from their tram wagon and moved into a regular home. While adapting into the post-war society proves impossible for them, they are also forced to accept that they can’t stay together either as the family ties begin to fray. Disintegration […]