This sweeping play follows the lives of two young footballing heroes from the tenements of Dublin through the battlefields of France, and their return home. Using all the resources of the theatre including live music and dance, this is an epic staging of one of O’Casey’s great plays.
Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19 – Druid’s biggest ever company of actors – and welcomes back some Druid favourites including Aaron Monaghan, Eamon Morrissey and Derbhle Crotty.
‘powerful and poetic production’- The Oxford Times
‘The Silver Tassie…emerges in Garry Hynes’s fine new production as one of the great (anti) war plays’- Irish Independent
Credits
Cast
Sylvester Heegan Eamon Morrissey
Simon Norton John Olohan
Susie Monican Clare Dunne
Mrs Foran Derbhle Crotty
Mrs Heegan Ruth Hegarty
Teddy Foran Liam Carney
Harry Heegan Aaron Monaghan
Jessie Taite Aoife Duffin
Barney Bagnall Brian Gleeson
Soliders in France Christopher Doyle
Gerard Kelly
Elliot Harper
Adam Welsh
The Corporal Eamon Morrissey
The Visitor Bush Moukarzel
The Staff-Wallah John Olohan
Surgeon Forby Maxwell Elliot Harper
The Sister of the Ward Ruth Hegarty
Other Parts Played by The Company and Young Chorus (see below)
GALWAY CHORUS Lara Connaughton
John Gaughan
Martin Kenny
Peadar O’Goill
Miriam Ward
ENNIS CHORUS Adam Bluett
Aoife Corry
Laura Keown
Oisín Ó Cualáin
Dalian Rynne
DUBLIN CHORUS Craig Connolly
Alex Doyle
John Gaughan
Daisy Maguire
Nella Maguire
CORK CHORUS Oisín Bates
Kate Fenton
Adam Horgan
Linnea Lagerguist
Lochlainn McKenna
TRALEE CHORUS Niall Clifford
Anna Hayes
Eric Heaslip
Christine Meehan
Jamie Sugrue
OXFORD CHORUS Ella Graham
Bryony Neilson
Krishan Patel
Thomas Smith
Jordan Bolli-Thompson
SALFORD CHORUS James Archer
Jordan Bolli-Thompson
Ruth Flint
Conor McKinney
Jenny Tyson-Berry
PORTLAOISE CHORUS Lara Connaughton
Matthew Delaney
Keylan Fawsitt
John Gaughan
Emma Phelan
The chorus were recruited locally in each venue.
Creative Team
Writer Seán O’Casey
Director Garry Hynes
Set & Costume Designer Francis O’Connor
Movement David Bolger with Vanessa Lefrancois
Lighting Design Davy Cunningham
Sound Design John Leonard
Composer and Musical Director Elliot Davis
Music Consultant Philip Chevron
Casting Director Maureen Hughes
Production Team
Production Manager Eamonn Fox
Company Manager Sarah Lynch
Deputy Stage Manager Catherine Buffrey
Rehearsal Stage Manager Nick Chesterfield
Stage Manager Miriam Duffy
Assistant Stage Manager & Props Danny Erskine
Chorus Director Sarah Lynch
Technical Manager Barry O’Brien
Set Construction Theatre Production Services (TPS)
