Abandon Theatre Players
Directed by Ivan Motherway
STC Studio
April 27 - 30, 2016
There are times when a single, shocking event creates a chain of action and reaction, sometimes unbidden, its outcome often murky and much delayed – and the world changes.
A shot is fired outside a little Massachusetts village. A screaming child, her back ablaze, runs down a Vietnamese road. A young man stands in front of a tank in a Chinese square. A little boy’s body is lifted from the waters of the Mediterranean Sea.
A century ago, a rag-tag bunch of poets, apprentice politicians and wild-eyed nationalists are put up against a wall in Ireland after a Quixotic attempt to raise their countrymen against their English overlords fell on deaf ears.
These are the paroxysms of history, the moments when the world, whether it knows it or not, begins the process of saying enough is enough.
