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Kate Stanley Brennan
Referring to The Plough And The Stars, which opens for two weeks on April 24, she added: “I will try and get past this first though.”
Kate, whose grandfather Dennis was a radio star and whose grandmother Daphne Carroll appeared in TV mini-series Strumpet City, said she was expecting the whole clan to turn up and support her on opening night. The play is co-produced by the Abbey Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith where it is currently running.
And Sean O’casey’s everpopular work about the 1916 Easter Rising has been given a twist with the cast in modern clothing.
Kate, who plays Nora Clitheroe, revealed: “It’s the exact script so we have stayed true to that but the director Sean Holmes has done an amazing job in bringing it into our times. “It’s all going great, the houses are good and the Lyric Theatre is beautiful. “We were interested to see how it would go down in London and the reaction has been good. “It is obviously not as In The White Devil Martina Stanley and Stephen Brennan well-known as in Ireland but we have had a lot of Irish in. I am really looking forward to doing it in Dublin.
“We did it before at the Abbey to packed houses and now half the cast is new.
“We have brilliant people who have injected new energy into it, like Phelim Drew as Fluther and Niall Buggy as Uncle Peter. The English soldiers are new too.”
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