Irish women’s party gets darkly comic feminist alternative history
In The Roaring Banshees, members of Cumann na mBan establish a nationalist, feminist splinter group who try – and fail – to stop partition by assassinating Éamon de Valera
The Roaring Banshees
by Peter McGann and John Morton
Smock Alley Theatre
Rating:***
Until August 31
In December 1922, 400 members of Cumann na mBan were imprisoned in Kilmainham Gaol after voting against the Treaty that would end the Anglo Irish War. Peter McGann and John Morton’s new play imagines an alternative outcome for the all-female political party. In The Roaring Banshees, they establish a nationalist, feminist splinter group who try – and ...
