PROGRAMME: Making History, by Brian Friel (1988)
€40.00
PROGRAMME: Making History, by Brian Friel (1988)
€40.00
Original Program. Excellent condition.
A play about Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an Irish and Spanish alliance against the English in an attempt to drive them out of Ireland. Archbishop Lombard is writing the life of O’Neill, but what he seeks is neither ‘interpretation’ nor ‘fact’ but ‘the best possible narrative’.
Description
First production: Guildhall, Derry, 20 September 1988
Act One (Before Kinsale): A large room in O’Neill’s house in Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, August 1591.
Act Two (After Kinsale): The edge of a thicket in the Sperrin mountains, Co. Tyrone and O’Neill’s apartment in Rome in 1614.
A cynical reminder that all historians are revisionists, this play hints at a fundamental similarity between the recorder and the maker of events.
Original Cast
Mary Bagenal Emma Dewhurst
Hugh O’Donnell Peter Gowen
Mabel Bagenal Clare Holman
Harry Hoveden Niall O’Brien
Hugh O’Neill Stephen Rea
Archbishop Lombard Niall Tóibín
Production Team
Director Simon Curtis
Set Designer Julian McGowan
Lighting Designer Rory Dempster
Costume Designer Martin Chitty
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Assistant Director Eoin O’Callaghan
Administration Assistant Colette Nelis
Stage Manager Lizzi Cocker
Deputy Stage Manager Seamus Shea
Assistant Stage Manager Lucy Barter
Lighting Operator Conleth White
Set Construction Chameleon Productions
Costume Supervisor Christine Rowland
PR Orla Kennedy
Graphic Design Cindy Milner
Artist Basil Blackshaw
Casting Serena Hill
Casting Adriana Quaradeghini
Administrator Maureen Loughran
