By Bob Shuman The Plough and the Stars (1926), by Sean O'Casey, is an inflammatory play, which insulted the families of those who died in the 1916 Easter Rebellion and started a riot at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, on February 11, 1919.  Because of the upheaval, W. B. Yeats felt that theatregoers  had "disgraced […]
SOURCE: stagevoices.com at 04:29PM on June 1, 2019