Theatre review: Violet Gibson, The Woman Who Shot Mussolini; Everyman, Cork

Mad, bad or a visionary with a mission in life? These are the questions implicitly posed in this interesting one-woman play, written and performed by Alice Barry. Based on the true story of Irish aristocrat, Violet Gibson, this is the story of a reluctant debutante who shot the fascist Italian prime minister, Benito Mussolini, in 1926.

She failed to kill him however as the bullet skimmed his nose when he raised his head to salute a group of boy scouts in Rome.