Photo Flash: First Look at Lizzie Nunnery's TO HAVE TO SHOOT IRISHMEN

Get a first look at the production Images for the premiere of UK Theatre award-winning playwright Lizzie Nunnery's new play with songs To Have To Shoot Irishmen.

Inspired by the true murder of Irish pacifist Francis Sheehy Skeffington by a British soldier during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the new play conjures the shattering impact of those events on his wife and feminist activist Hanna, on William the teenage soldier who guarded Frank, and on Vane the rebellious commander who bears the news of Frank's death to Hanna.

The production's exciting cast will feature Gerard Kearns (Ian Gallagher in Shameless; the BAFTA Award-Winning The Mark of Cain; The Last Kingdon, BBC and Mike Leigh's forthcoming film Peterloo); Elinor Lawless (The End of Hope, Soho Theatre; King Charles III, Wyndham's Theatre and Bakkhai, Almedia Theatre);Robbie O'Neill (Little Boy Blue, ITV and Jonathan Strange and Dr Norrell, BBC) and Russell Richardson(An August Bank Holiday Lark, Northern).

Directed by Gemma Kerr (Hitting Town, Southwark Playhouse) and produced by Almanac Arts and Claire Bigley, To Have to Shoot Irishmen will run at Omnibus Theatre until the 20 October and will then tour to:

25-27 Oct, 7.30pm- Liverpool Everyman Theatre, as part of Liverpool Irish Festival

30 October, 8pm - Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury

1 -2 Nov at 8pm- Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury

5 Nov at 7.30pm- Mumford Theatre, Anglia Ruskin University,

Cambridge

6 Nov, 8pm - The Arts Centre at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk

For further information visit www.almanacarts.wordpress.com/

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