"Juno" is based not on the 2007 film about a pregnant girt, but on "Juno and the Paycock," Irish playwright Sean O'Casey's 1924 masterpiece. Set in the working-class tenements of Dublin during the Irish Civil War of the early 1920s, its title character, Juno Boyle, is the hardworking matriarch who tries to hold together her disintegrating family in the face of war, betrayal, and the drinking of her feckless husband.
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 11:52AM on April 24, 2014