JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK by Sean O’Casey   Review   Photos

Genre	Drama
Previews from	11 Nov 2011
Opens	16 Nov 2011
Booking to	26 Feb 2012
Closes	26 Feb 2012
Time	See performance schedule link at end of listing!
Performers	Sinead Cusack (Juno), Ciaran Hinds (Jack Boyle), Cornelius Clarke, Risteard Cooper, Clare Dunne, Kieran Gough, Luke Hayden, Dermot Kerrigan, Nick Lee, Gillian McCarthy, Bernadette McKenna, Brian Martin, Janet Moran, Kevin Murphy, Ronan Raftery, Sophie Robinson, Eoin Slattery, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor.
Director	Howard Davies
Design	Bob Crowley
Lighting	James Farncombe
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Costume	Bob Crowley
Sound	Ben Delaney
Producer	National Theatre / A co-production with the Abbey Theatre, Ireland
Synopsis	A devastating portrait of wasted potential in a Dublin torn apart by the chaos of the Irish War of Independence, 1922. Jack Boyle is out of work and determined to stay that way. He postures and drinks with his sidekick Joxer while the long-suffering Juno balances threats with cajolement to preserve the semblance of family in a squalid tenement flat. Their son Johnny, crippled fighting for the IRA, cowers indoors, terrified of reprisal; his sister Mary has joined the labour movement and is on strike. Sudden news of an inheritance provokes dreams of escape but, even before their rowdy celebrations are done, reality asserts itself as a neighbour’s corpse is carried down the stairs, another victim of the bitter civil war. Mary falls for an educated man as the loans stack up. Tragedy ensues.
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