Wednesday 31 July 2013

THE SCYTHE AND THE SUNSET by Dennis Johnston (1958)


"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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