What was the name of the paycock in Sean O'Casey's play 'Juno And The Paycock'?
"Juno and the Paycock (film) Juno and the Paycock is a 1930 British film written and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill, Edward Chapman and Sara Allgood. The film was based on the successful play of the same name by Seán O'Casey. Barry Fitzgerald, who played Captain Jack Boyle in the original stage production, appears as an orator in the first scene, but has no other role. In the slums of Dublin during the Irish Civil War, Captain Boyle (Edward Chapman) lives in a two-room tenement flat with his wife Juno (Sara Allgood) and their two"
"Juno and the Paycock Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey, and is highly regarded and often performed in Ireland. It was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period. It is the second of his ""Dublin Trilogy"" – the other two being ""The Shadow of a Gunman"" (1923) and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1926). ""Juno and the Paycock"" takes place in the tenements of Dublin in 1922, just after the outbreak of the"
"The performance has a spoken introduction by the author. The cast included: Juno and the Paycock Juno and the Paycock is a play by Seán O'Casey, and is highly regarded and often performed in Ireland. It was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish Civil War period. It is the second of his ""Dublin Trilogy"" – the other two being ""The Shadow of a Gunman"" (1923) and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1926). ""Juno and the Paycock"" takes place in"
"Juno (musical) Juno is a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based closely on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. The story centers on the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish War of Independence. Juno is a hardworking matriarch who strives to hold her family together in the face of war, betrayal, and her worthless husband's drinking. The original production opened on Broadway in 1959 and closed after only 16 performances. Its somber tone did not please the critics, who were"
"Bernstein's ""Candide"" was 'fixed'."" Juno (musical) Juno is a musical with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, based closely on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. The story centers on the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish War of Independence. Juno is a hardworking matriarch who strives to hold her family together in the face of war, betrayal, and her worthless husband's drinking. The original production opened on Broadway in 1959 and closed after only 16 performances. Its somber tone did not please"
"for a time by the emergence of Seán O'Casey as an heir to Synge. O'Casey's career as a dramatist began with ""The Shadow of a Gunman"", staged by the Abbey in 1923. This was followed by ""Juno and the Paycock"" in 1924, and ""The Plough and the Stars"" in 1926. Theatregoers arose in riots over the last play, in a way reminiscent of those that had greeted the ""Playboy"" 19 years earlier. Concerned about public reaction, the Abbey rejected O'Casey's next play. He emigrated to London shortly thereafter. World War I and the Irish Rebellion of 1916 almost ended the"
"in that one goes to work for four or five weeks or longer and plays a part nightly and everyone talks about the play and their roles. Television is not like that. In television one turns on a camera and one plays ones lines in scenes and when the camera is switched off then you are finished. I get greater satisfaction out of drama and theatre roles"". In 1988, Oates appeared at the Gate Theatre in the Seán O'Casey play ""Juno and the Paycock"", playing a furniture removal man. It was also performed at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway"
"The Plough and the Stars The Plough and the Stars is a four-act play by the Irish writer Seán O'Casey that was first performed on February 8, 1926 at the Abbey Theatre. It is set in Dublin and addresses the 1916 Easter Rising. The play's title references the Starry Plough flag which was used by the Irish Citizen Army. It is the third play of O'Casey's well-known ""Dublin Trilogy"" – the other two being ""The Shadow of a Gunman"" (1923) and ""Juno and the Paycock"" (1924). The first two acts take place in November 1915, looking forward to the liberation"
"a drama critic, allowing him free entry to Broadway and downtown shows. In this capacity he saw the 1926 Broadway production of Seán O'Casey's ""Juno and the Paycock."" O'Casey's work would prove to be a powerful influence on Odets as a playwright. In his early twenties, Odets spent four summers as a dramatics counselor at Jewish camps in the Catskills and the Poconos. He toured extensively with stock companies, in particular Philadelphia's popular Mae Desmond Company, playing a large variety of character roles at their theater in Chester, Pennsylvania. His first Broadway break came in 1929, when he was cast"
"trivialises everything.) ""It doesn't matter what you say, ma – a principle's a principle."" – Mary Boyle speaking about the strike ""He ought to be here."" (Johnny on Boyle's absence.) In 1930, a British film adaptation of the play was produced which was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the United States, it was also known by the title ""The Shame of Mary Boyle."" There are three television adaptions of ""Juno and the Paycock"": A musical adaptation of the play, titled ""Juno"", was created by Marc Blitzstein (music, lyrics) and Joseph Stein (book) and opened on Broadway in 1959. Shirley Booth"
"of force, as a transience from Anglo-Irish ascendancy towards a gaelic identity. The Abbey Theatre was another arena for expression outwith the plays of James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, and Lady Gregory. But perhaps the most pugilistic was the Marxist-inspired ""The Plough and the Stars"" and existentialist ""Juno and the Paycock"" both penned by Seán O'Casey. The active discussion of physical fighting on stage mirrored actual events on the streets, almost as they were happening. Unequivocally stated the nationalism was overtly gaelic in language and perception. And through the convenient medium of acting, women became supported in rights, even to"
"such as Douglas Hyde, Michael Cusack and Eamonn Ceannt William Bulfin, best known for introducing Gaelic sports to Argentina, was a key writer for the United Irishman and a key international promoter of the Irish Independence cause. In 1902, he met at An Stad with McGarvey, Hyde, Griffith and others, and is credited with introducing the members of the United Irishman to the later founders of the Abbey Theatre Seán O'Casey, author of such plays as ""Juno and the Paycock"" and ""The Plough and the Stars"" was a regular at An Stad during the early 20th century Sean T O'Kelly"
"her return to Ireland Allgood continued to perform at the Abbey Theatre. Her most memorable performance was in Seán O'Casey's ""Juno and the Paycock"" in 1923. She won acclaim in London when she played Bessie Burgess in O'Casey's ""The Plough and the Stars"" in 1926. Allgood was frequently featured in early Hitchcock films, such as ""Blackmail"" (1929), ""Juno and the Paycock"" (1930), and ""Sabotage"" (1936). She also had a significant role in ""Storm in a Teacup"" (1937). After many successful theatre tours of America she settled in Hollywood in 1940 to pursue an acting career. Allgood was nominated for a"
"and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein is based on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. It originally opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater on March 9, 1959, starring Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas and played a total of sixteen performances. Songs include ""I Wish It So"", ""We’re Alive"", and ""One Kind Word"". Stein lived in Manhattan with his wife Elisa Loti, an Obie Award and Theatre World Award-winning actress who was featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine and who is now a psychotherapist practicing as Elisa Stein. He was"
"In November through December 2009, she appeared Off-Broadway at the Acorn Theatre in her husband's (Kenneth Lonergan) play ""The Starry Messenger"". From October 2013 to December 2013, she starred in the Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theater production of ""Juno and the Paycock"" as Juno Boyle. The ""New York Times"" reviewer wrote: ""In one of the finest performances of her distinguished career on the New York stage, Ms. Smith-Cameron imbues her Juno with a steely pragmatism, but more important an emotional pliancy that makes her more prepared than the rest of her clan to beat back the onslaughts of ill fortune that"
"God."" Although completely shattered, Juno shushes her daughter, saying that they will need both Christ and the Blessed Virgin to deal with their grief. Alone, however, she laments her son's fate before the religious statues in the family's empty tenement, deciding that Boyle will remain useless, and leaves with Mary. The film was based on the successful play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. Hitchcock filmed a faithful reproduction of the play using few of the directorial touches he had incorporated in his previous films. Instead he often asked cinematographer Jack Cox to hold the camera for long single"
"the son of Fanny Sophia (née Ungerland) and Adolphus Shields. His father was Irish and his mother was German. He was the older brother of Irish actor Arthur Shields. He went to Skerry's College, Dublin, before going on to work in the civil service, while also working at the Abbey Theatre. His career with the Abbey Theatre was from 19141936 where he was involved in numerous productions. By 1929, he turned to acting full-time. He was briefly a roommate of famed playwright Seán O'Casey and starred in such plays as O'Casey's ""Juno and the Paycock"" and the premiere of ""The"
"young children Mary (Kathleen O'Regan) and Johnny (John Laurie). Juno has dubbed her husband ""the Paycock"" because she thinks him as useful and vain as a peacock. Juno works while the Captain loafs around the flat when not drinking up the family's meagre finances at the neighbourhood pub. Daughter Mary has a job but is on strike against the victimisation of a co-worker. Son Johnny has become a semi-invalid after losing an arm and severely injuring his hip in a fight with the Black and Tans during the Irish War of Independence. Although Johnny has taken the Anti-Treaty side during"
"Paycock"", she developed an obsessive need to meet the author. Upon her return to London from New York, she arranged an introduction to him. She was 17 years his junior, and he immediately invited her to take the role of Nora Clitheroe in ""The Plough and the Stars"" for its first London production. In this role she replaced the original actress who had fallen ill after three weeks. Whilst continuing an affair with the married American theatre impresario Lee Ephraim, O'Casey began to court her doggedly. O'Casey appeared in her second role in an O'Casey play in June 1927, playing"
"in 1914. She quickly gained a reputation as a noted comic actress and singer. She became identified with Maisie Madigan in ""Juno and the Paycock"" and Bessie Burgess in ""The Plough and the Stars"" (both by Seán O'Casey), as well as the Widow Quin in Synge's ""Playboy of the Western World"". In 1959 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her part in the play ""God and Kate Murphy"". She also appeared in a number of plays by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy which were staged at the Abbey Theatre, A Disciple in 1931, Temporal Powers in 1932, Katie Roche"
"""The Drums of Father Ned"" was supposed to go up at the 1958 Dublin Theatre Festival, but the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, John Charles McQuaid, refused to give his blessing (it has been assumed because works of both James Joyce and O'Casey were in the festival). After Joyce's play was quietly dropped, massive changes were required for ""The Drums of Father Ned"", a devious way to get O'Casey to drop. After this, Samuel Beckett withdrew his mime piece in protest. In 1959, O'Casey gave his blessing to a musical adaptation of ""Juno and the Paycock"" by American composer Marc Blitzstein."
"the bag and hides it in her own room. The Auxies find nothing of note in Seumus' room, but take off Minnie Powell, who is later killed trying to escape. The Shadow of a Gunman The Shadow of a Gunman is a 1923 play by Seán O'Casey set during the Irish War of Independence. It centres on the mistaken identity of a building tenant who is thought to be an IRA assassin. It is the first in O'Casey's ""Dublin Trilogy"" - the other two being ""Juno and the Paycock"" (1924) and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1926). Dublin. May 1920."
"be fruitful for both theatre and dramatist but which ended in some bitterness. The play deals with the impact of revolutionary politics on Dublin's slums and their inhabitants, and is understood to be set in Mountjoy Square, where he lived during the 1916 Easter Rising. It was followed by ""Juno and the Paycock"" (1924) and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1926). The former deals with the effect of the Irish Civil War on the working class poor of the city, while the latter is set in Dublin in 1916 around the Easter Rising. Both plays deal realistically with the rhetoric"
"strong fascination for future Irish dramatists. Synge's most famous play, ""The Playboy of the Western World"", ""caused outrage and riots when it was first performed"" in Dublin in 1907. O'Casey was a committed socialist and the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. O'Casey's first accepted play, ""The Shadow of a Gunman"", which is set during the Irish War of Independence, was performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1923. It was followed by ""Juno and the Paycock"" (1924) and ""The Plough and the Stars"" (1926). The former deals with the effect of the Irish Civil"
"at the Aldwych Theatre. He released an LP record, ""MacGowran Speaking Beckett"", to coincide with Samuel Beckett's 60th birthday in 1966, and won the 1970–71 Obie for Best Performance By an Actor in the off-Broadway play ""MacGowran in the works of Beckett"". He also specialised in the work of Seán O'Casey, creating the role of ""Joxer"" in the Broadway musical ""Juno"" in 1959, based with O'Casey's 1924 play about the Troubles, ""Juno and the Paycock"". Fittingly, he played O'Casey's brother Archie in ""Young Cassidy"" (1965), one of John Ford's last films (which the director had to abandon due to ill"
"popularising Chekhov in Britain. From 16 November 1925, with Dennis Eadie, he presented ""Juno and the Paycock"" at the Royalty Theatre, thus bringing Seán O'Casey to the attention of London's theatre-going public. O'Casey's ""The Plough"" followed the next year. At the Oxford, Fagan produced ""Full Moon"", the first play by Emlyn Williams, and gave him a role in his own play, ""And So to Bed"" (1926), based on the life of Samuel Pepys, in London. Fagan received little support from Oxford University or the play-going public and resigned in 1929. His successor was Stanford Holme, who broadened its appeal and,"
"""Juno and the Paycock"", first in Dublin in 1988 and again in Minneapolis in 2015, both for director Joe Dowling. Her Minneapolis appearance was her final stage performance, directed by Dowling in his farewell production in charge of the Guthrie theatre in mid-2015. She had, said Dowling, grown even greater in the role, bringing an added elegance and finesse to the spirited mouthpiece of the Dublin tenements during the nationalist schisms of 1922. Reeves was first married to Barry McGovern but separated after five months. She subsequently married Julian Erskine, executive producer for ""Riverdance"", whom she met when she was"
"John Kavanagh (actor) John Kavanagh is an Irish actor who has acted on the stage, in over twenty films including ""Cal"" (1984), ""Braveheart"" (1995) and ""Alexander"" (2004), and in numerous television programs. His awards include being nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1989 for his role in a revival of ""Juno and the Paycock"". John Kavanagh is an Irish character actor. He began his career with the Irish comedy ""Paddy"" (1970), where he played the small role of Willie Egan. That same year, he played another small role in the World War II"
"In the family act with his parents and Danvers, young Leno often took the leading role in such sketches as his stepfather's ""The Wicklow Wedding"". Another of their sketches was ""Torpedo Bill"", in which Leno played the title role, an inventor of explosive devices. His parents played a ""washerwoman"" and a ""comic cobbler"". This was followed by another sketch, ""Pongo the Monkey"". Opening at Pullan's Theatre of Varieties in Bradford on 20 May 1878, this burlesque featured Leno as an escaped monkey; it became his favourite sketch of the period. The teenage Leno's growing popularity led to bookings at, among"
"in her flying peacock machine: The Clouds divide, and JUNO appears in a Machine drawn by Peacocks; while a Symphony is playing, it moves gently forward, and as it descends, it opens and discovers the Tail of the Peacock, which is so large, that it almost fills the opening of the Stage between Scene and Scene. Unusual visual allegory in this Tory panegyric of Charles II and the House of Stuart includes a figure representing the radical Whig leader Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury ""with fiend's wings, and snakes twisted round his body; he is encompassed by several fanatical"
"to receive the Hawthornden Prize and supervise the West End production of ""Juno and the Paycock"", O'Casey fell in love with Eileen Carey. The couple were married in 1927 and remained in London until 1938, when they moved to Totnes. In 1928, W. B. Yeats rejected O'Casey's fourth play, ""The Silver Tassie"" for the Abbey. It was an attack on imperialist wars and the suffering they cause. The Abbey refused to perform it. The premier production was funded by Charles B. Cochran, who took only eighteen months to put it on stage. It was put up at the Apollo Theatre"
"for more valuable books. In 1830 he founded his own company, ""James Duffy and Sons"" and issued ""Boney's Oraculum"", or ""Napoleon's Book of Fate"", which experienced huge sales. ""Boney's Oraculum"" would later be the object of an allusion in a speech of Capt. Boyle in Seán O'Casey's 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"". Another great editorial success was achieved when he collaborated with Charles Gavan Duffy (no relation) from 1843 to 1846 to publish poetry from the writers of ""The Nation"". By the 1860s he was employing 120 staff members at his various enterprises in Dublin. In 1860 he started"
"a painter but his father pointed out that it might make more financial sense to become an architect. Scott became an apprentice for the sum of £375 per annum to the Dublin architectural firm Jones and Kelly. He remained there from 1923 until 1926, where he studied under Alfred E. Jones. In the evenings after work, he also attended the Metropolitan School of Art and the Abbey School of Acting, and appeared in many plays there until 1927, including the first productions of Seán O'Casey’s (1884-1964) Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars. On completing his pupilage"