Juno and the Paycock
Juno and the Paycock Author: Sean O'Casey
First Performance: 1924, Dublin
Published: 1925
Genre: Tragicom. in 3 acts
Setting: Dublin tenement living room, 1922
Cast: 14m, 5f
Despite the ‘peacock’, her drunken and idle husband ‘Captain’ Jack Boyle, his wife Juno struggles to keep the family going. Her son Johnny, who was wounded in the nationalist struggle against the English, cannot work and lives in terror during the mounting civil war between republican factions. Her pretty daughter Mary is on strike for ‘a principle’. When Juno tells Boyle of a job, he pleads leg cramps and settles down to a cup of tea with his fawning companion Joxer Daly. They are surprised by Juno's return. She has met an English schoolteacher Charles Bentham, who tells them that the family may expect to inherit a fortune from...
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