'Juno' in Riverbank

Juno and the Paycock is currently being performed in the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge and will finish next Saturday, 25 March.

Set in Ireland in the 1920s, Juno and the Paycock focuses on the complexities, conflicts and contradictions of life in Dublin’s tenement, where the themes of poverty, nationalism, religion and the Labour movement are explored. Against this backdrop, the protagonist Juno, a strong woman, struggles to hold her family together. The production is directed by Des Garrett.

The play is one of Seán O’Casey’s most powerful, and is being presented by the Melting Pot Theatre Company.

The company was founded in 1999 and derives its name from the reference, ‘The Electric Melting Pot’, the practice of borrowing different ideas and different styles and mixing them together.