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S et amid the tumult of Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising,The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by idealism and revolution. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through the city's streets. A battle that will shape the country's future rages around them. What kind of Ireland awaits them? When The Plough and the Stars was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1926, the audience rioted. Now considered a masterpiece, this provocative play is essential to our understanding of the forces that rocked Ireland one hundred years ago. Olivier Award–winning director Sean Holmes brings a fresh perspective to Sean O'Casey's timeless and absorbing masterpiece. Art & Society Stay Tuned! The Plough and the Stars will mark the launch of Art & Society, a new discussion series that explores the vital role of the arts in illuminating contemporary social and political issues. Participants will include Montclair State's Lucy McDiarmid, Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English and author of At Home in the Revolution: What Women Said and Did in 1916 (Royal Irish Academy, 2015). Additional details to be announced on peakperfs.org. ABBEY THEATRE THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS BY Sean O'Casey DIRECTED BY Sean Holmes PRODUCED BY THE Abbey Theatre IN ASSOCIATION WITH Cusack Projects Limited SET DESIGN Jon Bausor COSTUME DESIGN Catherine Fay LIGHTING DESIGN Paul Keogan MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN Philip Stewart The Abbey Theatre's production of The Plough and the Stars is supported by Malin Corporation plc. LIMITED DATES October 20 & 21 @ 7:30 p.m. October 22 @ 8:00 p.m. October 23 @ 3:00 p.m. RUNNING TIME 2 hours, 30 minutes, including one intermission A good play can do something nothing else can do, because it can destabilize you and shift who you are. I think you want to do things that are really visceral and exciting and then people understand why you want to be in the theater. " " Sean O'Casey Photo: Wolf Suschitzky/Getty Images "Th' time is rotten ripe for revolution." Engage! S E A N H O L M E S Photo: Courtesy of the Abbey Theatre www.peakperfs.org 19

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