The Silver Tassie is a four-act Expressionist play about the First World War , written between 1927 and 1928 by the Irish playwright Seán O'Casey . It was O'Casey's fourth play and attacks imperialist wars and the suffering that they cause. O'Casey described the play as "A generous handful of stones, aimed indiscriminately, with the aim of breaking a few windows. I don't think it makes a good play, but it's a remarkable one."
5-444: The Silver Tassie may refer to: The Silver Tassie (play) , 1928 play by Sean O'Casey The Silver Tassie (opera) , 1999 opera adaptation of the above play, by Mark Anthony Turnage Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Silver Tassie . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-660: A soldier who goes to war as if going to a football match. The play's study of Harry’s loss of many of his life’s hopes during and after the war marks it as unusual. In 1928, W. B. Yeats rejected the play for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin . It premièred at the Apollo Theatre in the West End of London on 11 October 1929. It was directed by Raymond Massey and starred Charles Laughton and Barry Fitzgerald . The set design for act two
15-438: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Silver_Tassie&oldid=929002518 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Silver Tassie (play) An antiwar play in four acts, focusing on Harry Heegan,
20-528: Was by Augustus John . It ran for twenty-six performances. George Bernard Shaw and Lady Gregory were both great admirers of the production. Its Irish première was on 12 August 1935 at the Abbey Theatre, directed by Arthur Shields , though it ran for only five performances. Despite being popular, the controversy it caused led to O'Casey's permanent departure from Ireland. The first major production in England
25-814: Was by the RSC at the Aldwych Theatre, London, directed by David Jones, which opened on 10 September 1969 with Richard Moore as Harry Heegan. More recent productions include a 1990 production at the Abbey Theatre directed by Patrick Mason, a 1995 production at the Almeida Theatre , a 2010 tour of Ireland (along with performances in The Lowry in Manchester and the Oxford Playhouse ) by the Druid Theatre Company . and
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