Eirebrushed

Four revolutionaries meet in the afterlife, 100 years after the 1916 rising to tell the hidden stories of the lives of some of the heroes who would not ‘fit’ the vision of the new ‘Republic of equals’ that was promised in the glorious revolution.

Full of humor, pathos and actual testimony, Eirebrushed seeks to challenge the conventional Irish Republican stereotype to set out the contribution of lesbian and gay people at a time of struggle to overcome oppression in Ireland. The play records their words used in inspirational poetry and speeches as they struggled to create a society where, as the Proclamation promised “no minority would be subject to the will of the majority.”

Written & directed by Brian Merriman
Produced by TOSOS

The all-Irish cast stars award-winning actress Maria Blaney as Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell, who was famously airbrushed out of the 1916 surrender photograph; Flo McSweeney as author, trade unionist and activist sister of Countess Markievicz, Eva Gore Booth; John Kelly as poet-turned-revolutionary Padraig Pearse; and Stephen Gorman as human rights activist Roger Casement.

Performances take place at Downtown Art, 70 E. 4th Street (between 2nd Ave. & Bowery), New York, NY 10003. Subway – F to 2nd Avenue, 6 to Astor Place. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for students/seniors and are on sale now at www.eirebrushedinnyc.bpt.me