Watch Audience Reactions and Footage

To watch audience reactions to The Silver Tassie, click HERE.

To watch an RTÉ News clip featuring an excerpt from the show and an interview with Garry Hynes HERE.

To hear some of the music from the show and to see some of the preparations behind the scenes at our technical rehearsals, watch HERE.

Behind the Scenes at The Silver Tassie

You can take a look behind the scenes and find out what went on during the rehearsal process. We’ve included interviews and our programme note written by Frank McGuinness. You can read more HERE.

Press Coverage & Interviews

Read interviews with our cast and creative team. More HERE.

About The Silver Tassie

This sweeping play follows the lives of two young footballing heroes from the tenements of Dublin through the battlefields of France, and their return home.

Using all the resources of the theatre including live music and dance, this is an epic staging of one of O’Casey’s great plays.

Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes directs a cast of 19 – Druid’s biggest ever company of actors – and welcomes back some Druid favourites including Aaron Monaghan, Eamon Morrissey and Derbhle Crotty.

The Silver Tassie kicked off on August 24th, 2011 at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway, The Silver Tassie and toured to five venues in Ireland and to the UK. The full tour schedule can be found on the right-hand-side of this page.

Druid would like to acknowledge the continued support of the Arts Council in funding the company’s work and also the support of Culture Ireland in funding its international touring programme.

Reviews

Please note that some publications do not have online links and that full reviews may not appear here.

Financial Times ***** 5 Stars

“deserves to be far more widely seen.”

The Oxford Times

“powerful and poetic production”

Irish Independent

“The Silver Tassie…emerges in Garry Hynes’s fine new production as one of the great (anti) war plays”

Irish Theatre Magazine

“Druid’s definitive production of The Silver Tassie”

Sunday Independent

“a remarkable overall achievement”

Irish Examiner

“Francis O’Connor’s design is astonishing”

Sunday Tribune

“epic feats of stage management”

Press Coverage

Watch

RTÉ One News – 28.08.10
A clip from the show and an interview with Director, Garry Hynes
Watch

Listen

RTÉ Radio 1 – Pat Kenny – 24.08.10
Interview with Director, Garry Hynes
Listen

Read

THE IRISH TIMES – 09.10.10
Fintan O’Toole’s opinion piece on The Silver Tassie
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IRISH INDEPENDENT – 28.08.10
Article on Seán O’Casey and his journey with The Silver Tassie
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THE CONNACHT TRIBUNE – 26.08.10
Interview with John Gaughan – one of the Galway chorus members
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GALWAY ADVERTISER – 19.08.10
Interview with Composer and Musical Director, Elliot Davis
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THE IRISH TIMES – 19.08.10
Feature article on the history of The Silver Tassie
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THE IRISH TIMES – 14.08.10
Interview with Owen Smith, the illustrator behind Druid’s image for The Silver Tassie
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GALWAY ADVERTISER – 12.08.10
Interview with director, Garry Hynes
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