ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY
TFIS^ATRE GUILD
*JUNO A|.lD THE PAYCOCK"
BY
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 streets in 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 seen in 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 ......JoSEPHINE BURToN
... . . . .. ............1.....
"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 Furniture Remover .... 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
Patrcar
Profesror J. G, Cornell Professor John Bishop
Dr. C. E. Fenner Mr. F. S. Johnston
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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