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The Steward of Christendom review " shattering portrait of a scarred man

by Helen Meany

Gate theatre, DublinOwen Roe is riveting in Sebastian Barry's deconstruction of a family set against the tensions of Irish independence Sebastian Barry's shimmeringly poetic memory play is a portrait of a man with tangled allegiances. Thomas Dunne, the chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan police until 1922, was Barry's great-grandfather. A loyal servant of the British Crown, he was considered a traitor " a…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07am on July 28, 2022