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Drama on 3

Drama

Series of drama performances, ranging from experimental works to the Classics

Sean O'Casey

Sorcha Cusack

Stanley Townsend

John Kavanagh

Beth Cooke

Rory Fleck Byrne

Ruairi Conaghan

Michele Moran

Marcella Riordan

Stephen Hogan

David Cann

Craige Els

Scarlett Brookes

Peter Kavanagh

Drama on 3: Juno and the Paycock

Drama: Historical

Drama: War & Disaster

Juno and the Paycock

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Sean O'Casey's comedy masterpiece. An impoverished Dublin family comes into an inheritance

Alfred Hitchcock so loved Sean O'Casey's Abbey theatre play he adapted and filmed it. A Dublin tenement family nearing destitution get wind of an inheritance.

Sean O'Casey's hilarious tragic-comedy, set in a working-class Dublin tenement during the Irish Civil War, is now considered one of the finest Irish plays of the last century. Will a surprise inheritance improve life for the Boyle family?

Juno Boyle ..... Sorcha Cusack
Captain Boyle ..... Stanley Townsend
Joxer Daly ..... John Kavanagh
Mary Boyle ..... Beth Cooke
Johnny Boyle ..... Rory Fleck Byrne
Charles Bentham ..... Ruari Conaghan
Maisie Madigan ..... Michele Moran
Mrs Tancred ..... Marcella Riordan
'Needle' Nugent ..... Stephen Hogan
Furniture Man ..... David Cann
Neighbour ..... Craig Els
Neighbour ..... Scarlett Brookes

Adapted and directed by Peter Kavanagh.

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