GPO RISING PLAY TO BE STREAMED
Olivier award winning Fishamble: The New Play Company, have announced that audiences will have another chance to see Inside The GPO, when it is streamed online this Easter Monday.
Written by Colin Murphy and directed by Jim Culleton,the show was a big success during the 1916 commemorations.
This documentary drama, was an opportunity to experience the Easter Rising, performed in the main hall of the GPO itself. Audiences witnessed the rebel leadership navigate the perils of the Rising across the five days during which they occupied the GPO.
Fishamble’s archive footage of the production will be accessible from 7pm Sunday 12 April - 10pm Monday 13 April. To access at that time go to www. fishamble.com/inside-the-gpo
The huge cast included: Karen A rdiff, Orla Fitzgerald, Liz FitzGibbon, Gavin Fullam, Manus Halligan, Aidan Kelly, Ronan Leahy, Michael Glenn Murphy, Don Wycherley, Louis Deslis, Martha Dunlea, Carolyn Donnelly, Tom Duffy, Desmond Eastwood, Ali Hardiman,
Daniel McDermott, Meg O’Brien and Gavan O’Connor Duffy.
This is just one of a number of initiatives in which Fishamble are sharing work and engaging with artists online, while theatres are currently closed. They include the Tiny Plays Challenge inviting anyone to write their own 600 word play (www.fishamble.com/ tinyplaychallenge); continuing engagement with artists through their dramaturgy course (www.fishamble.com/ dramaturgy-dev-prog) and online playwriting courses (www.fishamble.com/playwriting-courses); an online presentation of Fishamble’s Tiny Plays by Solas Nua presents at Cyber Craic, a digital online festival (www. solasnua.org/cyber-craic-a-digital-irish-arts-festival-2020).