Following on from their sell-out run of Dial M For Murder in February, The Breffni Players are continuing their successful year with Seán O’Casey’s The Shadow Of A Gunman, directed by Noel O’Callaghan.
The Shadow of a Gunman was the sixth play by Seán O’Casey to be sent to the Abbey Theatre and first to be accepted and produced at the theatre in 1923. The play is set against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence and is in turns tragic and comic.
The story takes place in 1920s Dublin and tells the tale of a poet who lets the rumour that he is an IRA assassin run wild as he enjoys the mysterious allure this lends him in the eyes of his neighbours, including a young woman who dreams of a life beyond her tenement room…
The Breffni Players
In November 1943, a public meeting was held in what was then known as The Labour Hall (the site of Gills Garage today) and as a result, The Breffni Players were formed. This venue also housed the group’s first production, Nothing in this Life by Louis J Walsh. Eighty years on, The Breffni Players can proudly claim to have performed at least one production every year since (except during the pandemic) for the local Carrick-on-Shannon residents.
This amateur production is presented by arrangement of Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.
Tickets €20/€16 concession
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