The Prodger

Writer Tina Noonan tells the story of her Gran Uncle Johnny, a Catholic Irishman who fought at The Somme, woke up in a morgue and found his right leg amputated below the knee.

We meet him as an old man in an Irish country pub on a stormy, murderous night in 1964. The horrors of the Great War have never left him and he can no longer remain silent.

This one-act play highlights the plight of the Forgotten: the Irish men who fought in WW1, endured its horrors and survived, returning to a new and divided Ireland where they buried their stories, never breathing a word of them to a single, living soul. Except Johnny: the time has finally come for him to tell his tale and reclaim his past.

This event takes place in our Studio Theatre with an unreserved, tiered seating layout.