The Week Before By Robin Glendinning

Type : Theatre

This is the story of the crazy week that precipitated the Easter Rising of 1916 which changed history. Pearse and MacDonagh
were poets and romantic idealists who secretly organised the armed insurrection.
Fitzgerald and MacNeill, the president of the Volunteers, were strongly opposed to a rising on practical and moral grounds and were ignorant of the advanced plans of the others. Birell, a brilliant civil servant who did much good in Ireland and his subordinate Nathan, were the English government aka ‘The Castle’.
The play covers the debates and moral dilemmas which filled ‘The Week Before’. As a link to the audience, the Cynic stalks the many vivid characters and whirling events but he too is on a journey and at the end he is not quite sure what it all means.
Presented by one of Northern Ireland’s leading amateur theatre companies.

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