"The Pillar café, with its clear view of the GPO, has been taken over by the Red Cross as a first aid station and is being run by the incompetent Myles. Johnston uses his two main protagonists - Palliser,the British Army Captain who becomes Prisoner in the Café and Tetley, the novice revolutionary - to explore the clash of principles and ideals that lay at the heart of the conflict in 1916."
Picture: T.P. McKenna and Denis Brennan in THE SCYTHE AND THE SUNSET by Denis Johnston,
directed by Ria Mooney, the Abbey Theatre at the Queen's Theatre, 1958.
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