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McKenna's Fort

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    Arnold Thomas Fanning 

  • Achoimre

    Statesman, humanitarian and Irish Revolutionary Roger Casement has spent five days travelling to Ireland by submarine to bring arms to the rebels of the Easter Rising, and now hides out in the ancient rath of McKenna’s Fort in Kerry. Exhausted and broken, his plans for a glorious revolution dashed by the inadequate help he has received from Germany, he now has a private mission in mind as he waits for rescue: to have the rebellion called off. Disappointed and tortured by a sense of failure, he is haunted during the night by images of the horrors he has witnessed doing his humanitarian work in the Congo and the Amazon Basin. As comfort, he conjures up memories of better times, and happier acquaintances, and in doing so he reveals a secret inner life which the world must never know of…

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

  • Cast size

  • Male

    1

  • Total

    1

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    23 March 2016

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    Presented by Fire & Ice Theatre Company
  • Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

    The New Theatre

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Sir Roger Casement Michael Bates
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Paul Kennedy
Dearthóir Seit Philipa Kavanagh
Dearthóir Soilsithe Paul Doran
Dearthóir Fuaime John Gunning
Terena Rogers
Ste Murray
Margaíocht John Kenny

Scripteanna Neamhfhoilsithe

  • Contact

    The Writer's Guild of Ireland

  • Seoladh

    Art House, Curved Street
    Temple Bar
    Dublin 2
    Republic of Ireland

  • Guthán

    +353 1 670 9970

  • Ríomhphost

    info@script.ie

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    script.ie

Eolas Faoi Chearta

  • Críoch

    All Territories

  • Cinéal Cearta

    All Rights

  • Teagmháil

    The Writer's Guild of Ireland

  • Seoladh

    Art House, Curved Street
    Temple Bar
    Dublin 2
    Republic of Ireland

  • Guthán

    +353 1 670 9970

  • Ríomhphost

    info@script.ie

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    script.ie

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the play's original production programme.