Theatre review: The Shadow of a Gunman
First produced in 1923, Seán O’Casey’s tragicomedy rails against the romanticisation of violence, excoriates the artistic desire to remain aloof from politics, and scorns the all-too-habitual hypocrisy and cowardice of people in general.
It is therefore a play positively seething with anger and, in this new production, director Wayne Jordan does a fine job of summoning all that anger while teasing out O’Casey’s absurd vaudeville comedy, too.
