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Aug 21, 2024 · Cast. Photos. Videos. The full cast has been announced for the new production of Seán O'Casey's timeless masterpiece, Juno and the Paycock, directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew...
- Introduction
- Intertextuality Between O’Casey and Yeats
- “Principle” and Reality, Or O’Casey’s Materialism
- Irish Modernism, Genre, and The Representation of Violence
Sean O’Casey was born in 1880 and came of age in the impoverished Dublin he portrays in his realist dramas. An activist in labor movements and the struggle for Irish independence, O’Casey played a prominent role in the Irish Citizen Army, a group formed to protect trade unionists from state violence that also participated in the 1916Easter Rising i...
The parallels between Juno and the Paycock and Yeats’ poetry are striking; indeed, it seems that O’Casey is virtually quoting Yeats in a quotidian form that conveys the gritty reality of Dublin in a way that both Yeats’ romantic and increasingly modernist verse cannot. Both writers are reflecting on an innocence lost in the violence of the early tw...
As O’Casey linguistically presents an alternative, material version of Yeats’ treatment of Irish political strife, so does he thematically treat the conflict between theory and reality in the play. Within Juno and the Paycock itself, there are two opposing views of the relationship between theory or “principle” and material reality. Mary, defending...
In response to the Easter Rising of 1916, in which O’Casey played an active role, Yeats wrote: “All changed, changed utterly:/ A terrible beauty is born” (lines 15-16). Yeats’ poetry, with its stunningly lyrical depictions of horror, exemplifies the terrible beauty he sees in the world. In contrast, O’Casey’s world, though not humorless, is distinc...
Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey. Highly regarded and often performed in Ireland, it was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period.
Aug 21, 2024 · Sonia Friedman Productions has announced full casting for the new West End production of Seán O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. Directed by Tony and Olivier award-winner Matthew Warchus, Juno and the Paycock is playing at the Gielgud Theatre from 21 September to 23 November 2024.
Juno and the Paycock is an all-talking sound 1930 British tragicomedy film co-written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. [1] The film was based on the successful 1924 play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. [2] .
Jun 27, 2019 · Set during the Irish Civil War of 1922-23, the story follows a family of meagre means headed by drunkard husband Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman). His wife, Juno (Sara Allgood), calls him a paycock – a pun on peacock because he poses but has little fight.
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Dec 20, 2018 · Unfortunately, Juno and the Paycock is one of Hitchcock’s dullest films. Barry Fitzgerald stars as Captain Jack Boyle, a useless drunk who sits at home while his wife Juno (Sara Allgood) works. Their daughter Mary (Kathleen O’Regan) and son Johnny (John Laurie) live with them in a two room apartment.
