Sive by John B. Keane. L-R Noel O’Donovan, Ruth Bradley, Barry Ward, Eamon Morrissey. Photo by Valerie O’Sullivan

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Production History

About the Tour

Druid’s 2003 production of Sive reunited the cast and crew of the previous year’s tour, this time performing in Galway, Killarney, Dublin and Cork.

About the Play

Ireland’s best-loved playwright, poet and author John B. Keane was born in Listowel, Co. Kerry in 1928 and died there on 30 May, 2002. In all he wrote 19 plays and 32 works of prose and poetry. Sive, Keane’s first and arguably greatest play, is an established classic. Set in a remote area of North Kerry, the play tells the story of the promise in marriage, of the young and beautiful Sive to an old man.

“Garry Hynes’ interpretation of John B. Keane’s first play is a work of genius” _{In Dublin, 22nd May 2003}