I recently re-read Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars" (about the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland) and thought how illuminating it would be to see it done with a black cast. So many political parallels.
There was an attempt at censorship of this play due to obscenities and the presence of a prostitute in the cast, by potentially withdrawing government funding for the Abbey Theatre. Lady Gregory famously said "If we have to choose between subsidy and our freedom, it is our freedom we choose.
I recently re-read Sean O'Casey's "The Plough and the Stars" (about the Easter Rising of 1916 in Ireland) and thought how illuminating it would be to see it done with a black cast. So many political parallels.
There was an attempt at censorship of this play due to obscenities and the presence of a prostitute in the cast, by potentially withdrawing government funding for the Abbey Theatre. Lady Gregory famously said "If we have to choose between subsidy and our freedom, it is our freedom we choose.
Feckin government overreach.