Ticket from €20 | Student €11
Running time TBC min | Interval
Age recommendation All
Trigger Warnings TBC
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11 Apr–26 Apr
The Everyman is proud to present a major revival of Making History by Brian Friel, directed by The Everyman’s new Artistic Director Des Kennedy in his inaugural season.
“History has to be made – before it’s remade”
A secret marriage. An international alliance. A holy war.
Ireland, 1591…
Gaelic Ireland is on the brink of extinction under English occupation. Hugh O’Neill and Mabel Bagenal have married in secret. Irish clans have joined forces with the Spanish, and the Battle of Kinsale is about to change the course of Irish history…
The Everyman is proud to present a major revival of Brian Friel’s masterpiece about resistance, revolution and the remaking of heroes.
First performed by Field Day in 1988, the play follows Gaelic leader Hugh O’Neill in the events before and after the Battle of Kinsale and examines who gets to decide how history is recorded, told and retold.
Directed by The Everyman’s new Artistic Director Des Kennedy in his inaugural season, and with an internationally renowned creative team including Tony nominee Mel Mercier (Sound and Composition), Niall McKeever (Set), Catherine Fay (Costume), Sinead McKenna (Lighting), Emily Terndrup (Movement) and Daniele Lydon (Voice and Dialect).
For the first time ever, the role of O’Neill will be played by 2 actors, who will play Hugh at different points in his life. Aaron McCusker (Shameless, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Ferryman) and Cork acting legend Denis Conway (Alexander, The Gigli Concert, The Wind That Shakes the Barley) – who returns to the role having famously performed it in 2007 – will share the role of the great O’Neill. They will be joined by Liadán Dunlea (Small Things Like These), Martha Dunlea (Lucy’s Passion, Abbey Theatre), Peter Gowen (Dancing at Lughnasa), Aron Hegarty (Then You Run for Sky Max), Chris McHallem (Normal People), Stephen O’Leary (The Summer I Robbed a Bank) and Ray Scannell (The Bluffer’s Guide to Suburbia).
Aaron McCusker as Hugh O’Neill, Ireland
Denis Conway as Hugh O’Neill, Rome
Liadán Dunlea as Mabel (Bagenal) O’Neill
Martha Dunlea as Mary Bagenal
Peter Gowen as Peter Lombard, Rome
Aron Hegarty as Hugh O’Donnell
Chris McHallem as Harry Hoveden, Rome
Stephen O’Leary as Harry Hoveden, Ireland
Ray Scannell as Peter Lombard, Ireland
Written by Brian Friel
Directed by Des Kennedy
Set Designer Niall McKeever
Costume Designer Catherine Fay
Lighting Designer Sinéad McKenna
Composer and Sound Designer Mel Mercier
Movement Director Emily Terndrup
Voice and Dialect Daniele Lydon
Ticket from €20 | Student €11
Running time TBC min | Interval
Age recommendation All
Trigger Warnings TBC
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