*JUNO A|.Ld the PAYCOCK"

ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY TFIS^ATRE GUILD

*JUNO A|.lD THE PAYCOCK"

SEAN O'CASEY

AT THE I{UT Monday May 3l Tuesday - -- June 1 Wedrcday June Z .t948 Sean OtCasey rvas born sixty years ago in Dublin. He was brought up in a Dublin tenement house, and becauseof an eye affliction never went to school, but teceived his education in the streets of Dublin, where he sold newspapersfor a livelihood. For a while he worked for a big newsagencyfor nine shillings a week, and had to be on the job at four in the morning. He did not learn to read until he was sixteen.

He worked as dock-iabourer, hod-carrier, stone-breaker on thg roads, railway workman, and builder's labourer; he helped to orgaruize the Irish Citizen Army which fought in the Dublin streetsin 1916, and in 1919 he wrote "The Story of the Citizen Atmyj' his first published work.

FIe learned his play technique by keen and regular attendance at the Abbey Theatre, first home of Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregoty, Lennox Robinson,and othets, and birthplace of the modern frish drama.

Towards the middle of tgZt he commenced to send plays to the Abbey Theatre. Lennox Robinson says they were difficult to read because they were written on poor paper, in pale ink and in a bad hand, but Lady Gtegory persevered with them, being struck by his gteat gift of characterization, and but for Yeats may have produced one of his earlier works, which were mostly about licentious capitalists and noble proletarians. Yeats, however, was adamant, slashing the author fot his sentimentality, and implored him to write about the life he knew - life of the Dublin slums.

FIis fitst play to be accepted, "The Shadow of a Gunmanr" was staged in April, 1923, and. it made his Dublin reputation in a single night. "Juno and the Paycock" was first ptoduced in Match, 1924, and in 1926 he was awardled the Flawthornden Prize for it.

James Agate has said that O'Casey's two plays, "Juno and the Paycock" and "The Plough and the Stars," together with Shaw's "St. Joanr" are the three greatestplays that London has seenin this century. M.J.

,'JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK" A Play in Three Acts

Scene: The living apartment of a two-roomed tenancy of the Boyle family, in a tenement house in Dublin

Tinez 1922

There will be a short interval between each Act, and the curtain is lowered in Act Iff to denote the lapse of one hour tt t' Juno and the Paycock

The Charactersrn the Play

"Captain" Jack Boyle JACK TAGGART

"Juno" Boyle...... :...... :...... MYRA NOBLET

JohnrryBoyle...... DON PASCOE

Mary Boyle ...... 1...... JoSEPHINE BURToN

"Joxer" Daly...... -...... LEN SWEENEY

Mrs. Maisie Madigan FLORENCE BROWN

"Needle" Nugent ....:...... ,...... JOHN WARD

Mrs. Tancred ...... NANCY BASHEER

Jerry Devine ...... REX HEADING

CharlieBentham ...... BARRIE McEWIN

First Irregular ...... FRANK BRO\U?N

S"cond Irregular a First FurnitureRemover ...... TED McKENZIE

SecondFutniture Remover

Coal-blockVendor ...... BRIAN FISHER

Sewing-machineMan

A Neighbour ...... JUNE McARTHUR

Uadei the direction of Thelma Baulderstone

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Stage Arrangements Michael Jarnes

Lighting J. C. Hantken UNIVERSITY THEATRE GUILD

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Corunittes Dr. T. D. Campbell Professor C. Jury Slr. R. Donaldson Mr. H. Kollosche Miss Rocemary Fitch Mr. Roy Leaney Miss Patricia Flackett Dr.,8. Mclaughlin Miss Barbara Howard Mrs. f. Thomas Miss G. D. tValsh

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