Fresh new production of a challenging Boucicault classic

Martha Dunlea, Liam Heslin and Deirdre Monaghan in The Shaughran Pic: Ste Murray

The Shaughraun

By Dion Boucicault

Smock Alley Theatre: Main Space, Dublin

Runs until September 1

Rating:***

Dion Boucicault was a master of melodrama. Working in London and then New York in the 19th century, he reinvented the stage Irishman, a comic foil that was ubiquitous in popular theatre of the time. The Shaughraun (1874) is his most famous play and typical of the way in which he subverts stereotypes. In the shape of ...