The Steward of Christendom
Feb 27 – Mar 15
Written by Sebastian Barry
Directed by James Schlatter
FEATURING: MONROE BARRICK, JOHN CANNON, PEGGY SMITH, DONOVAN LOCKETT, STEPHANIE IOZZIA, BRITTANY HOLDAHL, DAN MCGLAUGHLIN, JOHN O’DONNELL AND LINCOLN DREW MILLARD.
The Steward of Christendom is a freely imagined portrait of Thomas Dunne, the last superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. Considered by some to be a traitor to Ireland after the War for Independence, Dunne has been confined for seven years at a county home. A broken man, both mentally and physically, he reenacts scenes from his past, taking refuge in the memory of his three daughters and a son who died in World War I. Complex and beautiful, The New York Times hailed the play “MAGNIFICENT…the cool elegiac eye of James Joyce’s the Dead, the bleak absurdity of Beckett’s lost primal characters; the cosmic anger of King Lear.”