The Silver Tassie

Tue 14 September - Sat 18 September

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Set at the height of the Great War this sweeping play follows the lives of two young footballing heroes from the tenements of Dublin through the battlefields of France, and their return home. The Silver Tassie, one of Sean O’Casey’s greatest plays, is a thrilling spectacle using all the resources of the theatre; farce, humour, movement and music.

For this production Druid has put together one of their biggest ever company of actors. Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19, including some of Ireland’s leading actors, for what will mark Druid’s fourth visit to The Lowry in just under two years.

Druid, winner of 12 major theatre awards in 2009 including Best Visiting Production (The Cripple of Inishmaan) and Best Visiting Actor at the 2009 Manchester Evening News Awards, return to The Lowry with a production you simply won’t want to miss.

‘Hynes is not only a first-rate director. She has that mixture of the visionary and the pragmatic you find in all great theatrical pioneers.’ The Guardian

‘A world-class company.’ The Irish Times

Tue 14 September - Manchester United vs. Glasgow Rangers, kick-off 7.45pm