Balally Players Theatre Group present Juggernaut by David Sears

Sears sets the action in Killiney during the War of Independence, and centres it around a middle-class family whose immunity from the struggle is shattered with the arrival of a wounded gunman looking for refuge. This dilemma takes on a more acute dimension when the daughter of the household finds herself in love with an officer in the British Army. She comes to realise that his life will be endangered by the Irish rebel should the secrets he has stolen—a list of British operatives in Ireland—reach his superiors.  Her central encounters with the rebel and the British officer, respectively, constitute the heart of the play, and they are dramatized with an emotional and ethical complexity to rival the dramas of Noel Coward and R. C. Sherriff playing in the West-End.

A ninety minute retelling of a play first staged to great acclaim by MacLiammóir and Edwards in the Gate Theatre in 1929.

Tickets €14. Booking essential.