Red Roses for Me
Red Roses for Me
Author: Sean O'Casey
First Performance: 1943, Dublin
Published: 1942; rev. 1951, 1965
Genre: Drama in 4 acts; prose and some rhyming verse
Setting: The Breydons' home, a street, and Protestant church grounds, Dublin, c.1913
Cast: 16m, 5f
Ayamonn Breydon, who lives with his mother in a poor area of Dublin, is a young railway-yard worker. As well as leading a strike for a shilling raise, he loves the arts and is seen rehearsing Richard III. He is visited by his sweetheart Sheila Moorneen, who braves her Catholic parents’ objections to her loving a Protestant, but begs Ayamonn to spend less time on the strike. After several other visitors, news comes that the strike will go ahead, despite Revd Clinton's warnings about the likely response by the authorities. When Sheila begs...
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