... Irish. She became a leading figure in the Irish Citizens' Army, seeing active service in the Easter rising of 1916, and in the Irish labour movement, rising to become the first woman minister in any European country as Minister of Labour in the new Irish ...

... and On Baile's Strand draw on historical figures to interpret Yeats' personal and political concerns the first, the 1916 Easter rising, the second, his sense of grief at not having a son. Comic twc-hander The Cat and the Moon, on the other hand, is a quirky ...

... tyrant. Playing it this way gave a political edge to Stephen Brennan's Lucky, changing from stooped serfdom to a sort of Easter Rising to deliver a frenzied tirade that won him enthusiastic acclaim on the Barbican first night. Beckett never explains the ...

... corrector Keith. Strachan, is staged as a vibrant memorial to Alun Owen in its world premiere at the Playhouse. The curtain rises on one of a selection of amazing scenes by Terry Parsons, a cross-section of a ship crammed with lusty matelots arriving in ...