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BBC Radio 3Sun 4 Dec 2011 20:30 BBC Radio 3
Podcast
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Shakespeare Dramas
Series of three new productions of Shakespeare plays
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Rob Cowan's selection of music includes Adams and Martinu. Plus Bach: Cantata, BWV34.
Duration: 2 hours, 10 minutes
Sean O'Casey's classic play set in the midst of the Easter Rising of 1916. The impact of events is viewed through the eyes of ordinary people inhabiting a Dublin tenement. O'Casey's masterpiece paints a vivid portrait of a city and a nation in turmoil.
The Plough and the Stars is the second in a three-part series of classic plays chosen for Drama on 3 by the playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah. Kwame also introduces this new production of the play.
NORA ..... Elaine Cassidy
JACK ..... Padraic Delaney
BESSIE ..... Gabrielle Reidy
FLUTHER ..... Finbar Lynch
PETER ..... Stephen Hogan
THE COVEY ..... Jonathan Forbes
MRS GOGAN ..... Fiona Clarke
MOLLSER ..... Rebecca Gleeson
ROSIE ..... Jane McGrath
CAPT BRENNAN ..... Matthew McNulty
LIEUT. LANGAN ..... Sam Smith
Musical Director ..... Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
Sun 4 Dec 2011 20:30 BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3Sun 4 Dec 2011 20:30 BBC Radio 3
Series of three new productions of Shakespeare plays
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