For other uses, see Starry Plough (disambiguation).
The Plough and the Stars
Written by
Seán O'Casey
Characters
Fluther Good Peter Flynn, Mrs Gogan, Bessie Burgess Nora Clitheroe The Young Covey Jack Clitheroe Mollser Cpl. Stoddart Sgt. Tinley, Captain Brennan, Lt Langon, Voice of the man,Rosie Redmond
Date premiered
8 February 1926 (1926-02-08)
Place premiered
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Irish Free State
Original language
English
Subject
Easter Rising
Setting
Dublin: A tenement house and a pub
The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on 8 February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre.[1] It is set in Dublin and addresses the 1916 Easter Rising. The play's title references the Starry Plough flag which was used by the Irish Citizen Army.
It is the third play of O'Casey's well-known "Dublin Trilogy" – the other two being The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and Juno and the Paycock (1924).
^A Whirlwind in Dublin : the Plough and the stars riots. Lowery, Robert G., 1941-. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. 1984. ISBN 0313237646. OCLC 10099178.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
and 22 Related for: The Plough and the Stars information
ThePloughandtheStars is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on 8 February 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. It is set...
A plough or plow (US; both /plaʊ/) is a farm tool for loosening or turning the soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by...
distinctive performance. The same year, he made his London stage debut in ThePloughandtheStars at the Lyric Hammersmith and starred in the Rough Magic Theatre...
Triptych. Cusack's favorite roles included The Covery in ThePloughandtheStarsand Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World, which he reprised numerous...
of the seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major ThePloughandtheStars, a play by Sean O'Casey based on the Citizen Army's role in the Easter...
Turner appeared in several theatre plays, including ThePloughandtheStars, Romeo and Juliet, and A Cry from Heaven. Turner's television acting career...
regularly on the London stage in a series of leading roles including Nora Clitheroe in Sam Mendes's acclaimed production of ThePloughandtheStars (Young...
repertory around the country. These included ThePloughandtheStars, Drama at Inish, The Far-off Hills, Look at the Heffernans, The Playboy of the Western World...
Lughnasa and Monica Murray in By the Bog of Cats with Holly Hunter. On Broadway she played Nora Clitheroie in Sean O'Casey's ThePloughandtheStarsand Lily...
"Castlepollard venue to host Westmeath ploughing finals". Westmeath Examiner. Retrieved 1 June 2011. "Theploughandthestars". The Tribune. 27 September 2009....
of the show's national tour) and Minor Miracle in 1965. Other off-Broadway roles included Buy Me Blue Ribbons, Morning's at Seven, ThePloughandthe Stars...
from the University of East Anglia. Hill, who was living in Suffolk, died on 5 May 2024, at the age of 79. His Lord of the Rings trilogy co-stars, Boys...
Audible. Blood and Iron – via Audible. Raw, Lawrence (2016). Deconstructing Political Adaptations: Sean O'Casey's ThePloughandtheStars. Palgrave Macmillan...
The PloughandtheStars. 2006: "Best Supporting Actor Award" at the Irish Times Theatre Awards for his role as Georgie in the play Poor Beast in the Rain...
productions at The Gate andThe Abbey Theatres in Dublin. In London, he has worked with such directors as Sam Mendes in ThePloughandtheStars, Richard Eyre...
Pynchon on Lou Grant and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos. Marchand was born in Buffalo, New York, on June 19, 1928, and grew up in the adjacent suburb of...
Global Information