Gerard Kearns to star in the premiere of Lizzie Nunnery’s new play To Have To Shoot Irishmen
Almanac Arts is delighted to announce full casting for the premiere of Lizzie Nunnery’s new play with songs To Have To Shoot Irishmen which will open at the Omnibus Theatre in London from 2-20 Oct and then tour till the 6 November.
Inspired by the true murder of Irish pacifist Francis Sheehy Skeffington by a British soldier during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the new play conjures the shattering impact of those events on his wife and feminist activist Hanna, on William the teenage soldier who guarded Frank, and on Vane the rebellious commander who bears the news of Frank’s death to Hanna.
Playing the role of Frank will be Gerard Kearns who is best known for playingIan Gallagher in Shameless and appearing in the BAFTA Award-Winning The Mark of Cain, both for Channel 4. His other credits include The Last Kingdom, BBC; Looking for Eric, Trespass Against Us and Mike Leigh’s forthcoming filmPeterloo, all Film 4 and onstage in The Accrington Pals and Much Ado About Nothing, Royal Exchange, Manchester. Next year he will be seen in the HBO/Sky miniseries Chernobyl.
Joining Kearns will be Elinor Lawless (The End of Hope, Soho Theatre; King Charles III, Wyndham’s Theatre and Bakkhai, Almedia Theatre) as Hanna;Robbie O’Neill (Little Boy Blue, ITV and Jonathan Strange and Dr Norrell, BBC) as William and Russell Richardson (An August Bank Holiday Lark, Northern Broadsides and A View from the Bridge, Bolton Octagon) as Vane.
Writer Lizzie Nunnery is an award-winning playwright and celebrated singer-songwriter. Lizzie’s first play Intemperance (Liverpool Everyman, Sept 2007) was shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award. In 2016 she premiered Narvikat the Liverpool Playhouse, which went on to tour to great acclaim. The production was shortlisted for the international Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and won Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2017.
Directed by Gemma Kerr (Hitting Town, Southwark Playhouse) and produced by Almanac Arts and Claire Bigley, To Have to Shoot Irishmen will open at Omnibus Theatre from 2-20 October and will then tour until 6 November
- LISTINGS INFORMATION:
To Have to Shoot Irishmen
Tue 2 – Sat 20 October, 7pm. Sundays at 4pm. No performance on Mondays. See website for more details.
Tickets £16, £13 conc.
12+ years old
Box Office: Tel: 020 7498 4699, Email: [email protected]
Online: www.omnibus-clapham.org
Address: Omnibus Theatre, 1 Northside, Clapham Common, London, SW4 0QW
Twitter: @Omnibus_Theatre
Facebook: @OmnibusTheatre
Instagram: omnibus_theatre
- TOUR DATES –
Thursday 25 -Saturday 27th October at 7.30pm– Liverpool
Everyman Theatre (As part of Liverpool Irish Festival)
Tickets £10-£20
Box Office: Tel 0151 709 4776 / www.everymanplayhouse.com
Tuesday 30 October at 8pm
– Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
Tickets £13.75, concessions TBC
Box Office: Tel 01227 787787 / www.marlowetheatre.com/
Thursday 1 & Friday 2 November at 8pm- Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury
Tickets £14.50, Concessions £12.50
Box Office: Tel 01743 281281 / www.theatresevern.co.uk/
Monday 5 November at 7.30pm- Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University,
Cambridge
Tickets £12.50 full price, £10.50 concessions, £8.50 student/child
Box Office: 01223 352932 / www.anglia.ac.uk/mumfordtheatre
Tuesday 6 November at 8pm – The Arts Centre at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
Tickets £10, £8 concessions, free for Edge Hill University students
Box Office: 01695 584480 / www.edgehill.ac.uk/artscentre