OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Arnold Thomas Fanning 

• Synopsis

  Statesman, humanitarian and Irish Revolutionary Roger Casement has spent five days travelling to Ireland by submarine to bring arms to the rebels of the Easter Rising, and now hides out in the ancient rath of McKenna’s Fort in Kerry. Exhausted and broken, his plans for a glorious revolution dashed by the inadequate help he has received from Germany, he now has a private mission in mind as he waits for rescue: to have the rebellion called off. Disappointed and tortured by a sense of failure, he is haunted during the night by images of the horrors he has witnessed doing his humanitarian work in the Congo and the Amazon Basin. As comfort, he conjures up memories of better times, and happier acquaintances, and in doing so he reveals a secret inner life which the world must never know of…

• Play Type

  Plays General
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  1

• Total

  1

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  23 March 2016

• Production Notes

  Presented by Fire & Ice Theatre Company

• Original Venue

  The New Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the play's original production programme.