![]() There is, of course, no guarantee that the agreed formation will make the staged production. “That’s experienced actors on the stage knowing what we want to achieve and having seen it before,” Hogan will say later, sitting in the Mediterranean heat during the break for lunch. The set is basic and the cast is wearing rehearsal costumes. They are working out of the rehearsal room in the Digital Hub. Hynes sits and watches as they run through and abandon several set-ups before swiftly settling on a sort of physical relayed formation that conveys the confusion and shock – and fast acceptance – at the bleak news. Actors Marty Rea, Caitríona Ennis, Bosco Hogan, Catherine Walsh, Anna Healy, and Robbie O’Connor have to respond to the news in a way that enables all bar Ennis’s Minnie and Rea’s Donal to convincingly exit the tenement room. On a sweltering noontime in Dublin the cast are pausing towards the close of the first act of Shadow of a Gunman to run through the technical details of how they respond to word – delivered from the street – of the death of Mr Maguire. What has been happening in the meantime has involved the daily assembly of the nuts and bolts of the magic that Druid audiences associate with the company’s work. A cast of 18 actors, including Druid ensemble players, and all three plays performed in a one-day trilogy tickets, on sale later that month, flew. ![]() Druid would stage the Seán O’Casey Dublin trilogy arguably the company’s biggest undertaking since Garry Hynes’s lauded deep-dive of Druid Synge 18 years ago. The announcement in mid-March generated an instant gust of anticipation. ![]()
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