Backstage during three momentous Abbey Theatre productions, W.B Yeats' Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902), J.M Synge's Playboy of the Western World (1907) and Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars (1926), Yeats and Lady Gregory ponder the state of the Irish nation, and are every time interrupted by future revolutionary Patrick Pearse. An interesting idea, but not fully realised in Neil Weatherall's The Passion of the Play…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AM on July 1, 2017