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The Shadow of a Gunman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Shadow of a Gunman is a 1923 play by Sean O'Casey. It centers around the mistaken identity of a building tenant who is thought to be an IRA assassin. It is the first in O'Casey's "Dublin Trilog...
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The temptation with Sean O’Casey’s celebrated Dublin trilogy, which began with The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and continued with Juno and the Paycock (1924) and The Plough and the Stars (1926), is to present them as knock-about Oirish comedies full of loveable ... 6 Characters In Search Of An Author (28 Feb 2008);
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The Shadow of a Gunman raised the curtain on that trilogy, ... But it is in the rendering of its peripheral characters that Shadow impresses most: brief but intricate glimpses at the Irish social fabric, all seen here within the confines of a room in a Dublin tenement house shared by Shields, a peddler of things like hairpins...
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The Shadow of a Gunman is really two plays in two acts: the first, a comedy of errors peopled by a melange of quirky caricatures; the second, the tragedy of a semi-accidental heroine who dies in the defence of a coward. ... But the heroism, too, comes from these working class characters. For an IL Peretz, say,
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Sean O'Casey's The Shadow of a Gunman; Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London; 30th September - 6th November 2004 ... But at another we are being invited to admire the pluckiness of the characters, their ability to survive and even flourish in impossible circumstances, their quest for truth, their "devotion", as O'Casey...
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Shadow of a Gunman; 5 May 1999 - Irish Echo: "Theater Review: Rep's 'Gunman' shoots to top" (by Joseph Hurley) ... O'Casey's 11 characters represent something of a cross-section of the city's political opinion at the time, ranging from loyalty to the crown to fervent sympathy for the Irish Volunteers.
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O'Casey created some of the most memorable characters of the Irish theater, and several of them show up in "Shadow of a Gunman." There is Maguire (Sean Power, the self-effacing salesman who cooks up bombs, and Tommy Owens (John Keating), the boisterous blowhard who vows over and over that he would die for Ireland,
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