Jim Nolan’s new play, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a funny and richly entertaining, topical and provocative reflection on the Easter Rising Centenary Commemoration
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye at the Lime Tree Theatre March 29
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye on at the Lime Tree on March 29 at 8pm
Jim Nolan’s new play, Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye is a funny and richly entertaining, topical and provocative reflection on the Easter Rising Centenary Commemoration. Following its world première at Garter Lane Theatre in 2016, the play tours nationwide this Spring and runs at Lime Tree, Limerick on March 29 at 8pm – continuing its nationwide tour until April 8.
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Set in a provincial newspaper office in the Irish Midlands in the run up to Easter 2016, the privately-owned Inishshannon Chronicle has just been acquired by a media conglomerate and the new brush is about to sweep clean. As the newspaper’s staff struggle to adjust to the radical changes in the company’s structure and ethos, the town it serves prepares to celebrate a tenuous connection to the Easter Rising. The revelation that this connection is not quite what it seems puts the Chronicle’s editor on a collision course with both his new bosses and the local business and political community.
Originally commissioned with the support of the Arts Office of Waterford City & County Council from Waterford playwright, Jim Nolan, this new play produced by Garter Lane Theatre delves into the underbelly of Irish small town life as the nation celebrates the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising.
‘…Jim Nolan has an unapologetic affection for small-town life. But it never blinds him to its dangers and its faults…’ – Emer O’Kelly, Sunday Independent
‘…a meditation on the shape of the nation as it celebrates the Rising… lightly metaphorical and stealthily topical…’ – The Irish Times
‘…a genuine glimpse into what life is really like in the Irish regional newsroom…’ – Munster Express
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