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I am a playwright. I show
What I have seen.
In the man markets
I have seen how men are traded. That
I show, I, the playwright.

Bertolt Brecht

Theatre

Together for a better world! Theatre of the Oppressed and the Landless Workers’ Movement:

9 December 2023 / 13

I am currently leading a theatre project called Performing Resistance: the role of theatre and performance in 21st century workers’ movements. The aim is to create new links between artists... Continue reading

Rebecca Hillman

Theatre

Sean O’Casey, Ireland’s greatest working-class playwright

30 October 2023 / 13

Paul O’Brien, the first Irish critic to publish a full-length political biography of Sean O’Casey from a left-wing perspective, talks to Jenny Farrell about some largely unknown... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer

9 October 2023 / 13

Jenny Farrell reviews Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O’Brien Anybody who has come across the work of independent scholar and critic Paul O’Brien knows... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Holberrys

29 September 2023 / 12

Holberrys is a play about two Sheffield Chartists, Samuel and Mary Holberry, who helped organise the betrayed ‘physical force’ insurrection in the city in January 1840. Samuel,... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Theatre

Dramatising Revolution: Review of a trilogy of Sean O’Casey’s plays

16 September 2023 / 12

Seán O’Casey – the first proletarian dramatist writing in English – made his theme the struggle for the emancipation of the Irish people, and by extension of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Fierce and funny political theatre: ‘England & Son’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

10 August 2023 / 13

He’s done it again! A few years ago, Ed Edwards exploded into Edinburgh with ‘A Political History of Smack and Crack’, performed at the Fringe Festival. It... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Theatre

England and Son

19 July 2023 / 12

England and Son is a one-man play written specifically for the political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack). It’s a heartbreaking... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Theatre

Sean O’Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman

1 April 2023 / 15

Sean O’Casey’s play The Shadow of a Gunman premiered 100 years ago, on April 12, 1923, at Dublin’s national Irish theatre, the Abbey Theatre. The theatre, which... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Brendan Behan: playwright, poet, novelist, socialist and republican

6 February 2023 / 14

On the 100th anniversary of Behan’s birth in 1923, Jenny Farrell celebrates his life and work. Photo above by William Murphy Brendan Behan was arguably one of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Theatre

Women’s rights and class relations: George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’

31 October 2022 / 15

George Bernard Shaw (26th July 1856 to 2nd November 1950) was the second Irish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to him two years after... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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Category: Theatre

I am a playwright. I show
What I have seen.
In the man markets
I have seen how men are traded. That
I show, I, the playwright.

Together for a better world! Theatre of the Oppressed and the Landless Workers’ Movement:

Sean O’Casey, Ireland’s greatest working-class playwright

Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer

Holberrys

Dramatising Revolution: Review of a trilogy of Sean O’Casey’s plays

Fierce and funny political theatre: ‘England & Son’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

England and Son

Sean O’Casey: The Shadow of a Gunman

Brendan Behan: playwright, poet, novelist, socialist and republican

Women’s rights and class relations: George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’

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Category: Theatre

I am a playwright. I showWhat I have seen. In the man markets I have seen how men are traded. That I show, I, the playwright.

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I am a playwright. I show
What I have seen.
In the man markets
I have seen how men are traded. That
I show, I, the playwright.