27 February - 30 April 2026
An Abbey Theatre production
The Plough and the Stars
Written by Sean O'Casey
Directed by Tom Creed
Booking Information
Dates: 27 Feb – 30 Apr 2026
Previews: 27 Feb – 4 Mar
On the Abbey Stage
Times:
Mon – Sat 7.30pm
Sat matinees 2pm
Wed matinees 2pm, 8 & 22 April
Running time: approx. 2 hours and 30 minutes, including an interval.
Tickets: €15 – €54 plus booking fee
Age recommendation: 16+
Content Advice: For information on the content and themes in this production, click here.
Sign language interpreted performance: 11/04/26, 2:00pm
Touch Tour of Stage and Set: 18/04/26, 12:00pm
Audio-described performance: 18/04/26, 2:00pm
Captioned performance: 18/04/26, 2:00pm
Marking 100 years since it premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars returns, in an exciting new production directed by Tom Creed
At its original production in February 1926, the audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of Irish history and Irish theatre.
The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through the city’s streets. A revolution that will shape the country’s future rages around them. What kind of Ireland awaits them?
Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time.
Director Tom Creed said: “This production is a chance to remind us that O’Casey was a trailblazing innovator as well as a social realist of great humanity and compassion. The opportunity to stage the 100th anniversary production of the play at the Abbey is a rare and precious one – to honour its extraordinary legacy and to remind us how it continues to reflect Ireland back at itself a century after its legendary debut.”
Credits
- Jack Clitheroe: Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty
- Nora Clitheroe: Kate Gilmore
- Peter Flynn: Michael Glenn Murphy
- The Young Covey: Thommas Kane Byrne
- Bessie Burgess: Mary Murray
- Mrs Gogan: Kate Stanley Brennan
- Mollser: Evie May O'Brien
- Fluther Good: Dan Monaghan
- Lieutenant Langon: Domhnall Herdman
- Captain Brennan: Ash Rizi
- Corporal Stoddart: Fintan Kinsella
- Sergeant Tinley: Conor Wolfe O'Hara
- Rosie Redmond: Caitríona Ennis
- A Bartender: Michael Tient
- A Woman: Marion O'Dwyer
- The Figure in the Window: Matthew Malone
- Writer: Sean O'Casey
- Director: Tom Creed
- Set Designer: Jamie Vartan
- Costume Designer: Catherine Fay
- Lighting Designer: Stephen Dodd
- Composer and Sound Designer: Michael John McCarthy
- Movement and Intimacy Director: Sue Mythen
- Fight Director: Ciaran O'Grady
- Hair and Make Up: Tee Elliot
- Voice Director: Andrea Ainsworth
- Casting Director: Barry Coyle
- Assistant Director: Éadaoin Fox
- Assistant Set Designer: Florentina Burcea
- Illustrator: Shane Cluskey
