Dublin Gaiety Theatre – Captain Brassbounds Conversion – 1920s

About this Captain Brassbounds Conversion theatre programme

An original theatre programme for Captain Brassbounds Conversion at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. The cast includes P Maguire, Norman Barrs, Diarmuid Kelly, J Winter, Robert Hennessy and Liam Gaffney in George Bernard Shaw’s comedy of revenge and redemption set in Morocco. Programmes for Shaw’s plays staged in his native Dublin are a special find for collectors of Irish old theatre programmes and theatre memorabilia.

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, slight smudge mark on centre page (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Shaw wrote Captain Brassbound’s Conversion in 1899 with Ellen Terry in mind for the role of Lady Cicely Waynflete.
• Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856 and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
• The Gaiety Theatre on South King Street opened in 1871 and is Dublin’s longest-running theatre.