The Plough and the Stars Trailer

THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS, the third play in Sean O'Casey's famed Dublin Trilogy, is playing at Irish Repertory Theatre as part of the O'Casey Cycle through Saturday, June 22, 2019. www.irishrep.org Show Description: Pretty young newlywed Nora Clitheroe is the talk of her tenement as she tirelessly works to lift her family out of their impoverished circumstances. She tries to keep her husband Jack from the revolutionary fervor sweeping through Dublin. But Jack becomes a Commandant in the Irish Citizen Army, and when the Easter Rising of 1916 begins, he leaves a pregnant Nora to help lead the fight. The disparate, quarrelsome tenement residents are forced to shelter together as urban warfare makes their home nearly as treacherous as the streets. Passions and ideals rise and converge, but in the end, loss and devastation triumph over the promise of a new Ireland.