The Silver Tassie

Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in swaggering celebration before he grabs his kit and heads for the trenches. A nightmare world awaits, the men, reduced to cannon fodder, speaking in mangled incantations as the casualties stack up. Months later, Harry returns, a cripple at the football club party. Everyone but the shattered war veterans dance and forget. Peppered with acrid wit and dark vaudeville humour, The Silver Tassie , Sean O'Casey's powerful anti-war play of 1928, receives a major revival at the National Theatre in April 2014.

Product details

• Authors: Sean O'Casey
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2014
• EAN: 9780571315185
• ISBN: 978-0-571-31518-5
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; European History, First World War, DRAMA / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, British & Irish history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period)