It’s Not Over

Presented by THEATREclub

Dublin Theatre Festival 2016

“It’s not an easy thing to take up a gun and go out and kill some person without strong convictions or justification” – IRA Green Book

“It is, an’ it isn’t; it’s both bad an’ good...” – Mrs. Gogan

Nora Clitheroe lives in a tenement house with other ordinary people. Their lives are about to be rocked by the Rising. THEATREclub’s production of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars – It’s Not Over – will bring back rioting like it’s 1926.

‘It will take place in a theatre, but it is not a play. It is a campaign. You will watch a re-enactment of the past 50 years of violent political conflict. We are working with former IRA Volunteers. It’s four and a half hours long. There’ll be a bar and a live band, maybe bingo.’

In a year of revisionism, whitewashing, apologies and double speak; We refuse to commemorate 1916. It’s not over. It never started. Let’s look at 1966.

Written, Directed and Designed by Grace Dyas and Barry John O’Connor

Costume Design by Emma Fraser

Lighting Design by Eoin Winning

Sound Design by Rob Moloney