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The Steward of Christendom
Sebastian Barry's "The Steward of Christendom" is a "freely imagined portrait" of his great-grandfather and is the fifth play in a cycle of plays about his Irish family.
Thomas Dunne is the last Chief Superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, which was an organization that was devoted to the British crown and disbanded after the Irish war of independence in the 1920s. Regarded by some as a traitor, Dunne is an aging, broken man, alone and confined in a country home. His solace lies in reliving the memory of his three daughters and a son who died in World War I. Dunne's way of understanding his world dissolved as the revolution unfolded. By confronting his memories, family, and a changed Ireland, he is a man seeking forgiveness and understanding.
"MAGNIFICENT...the cool, elegiac eye of James Joyce's THE DEAD; the bleak absurdity of Samuel Beckett's lost, primal characters; the cosmic anger of KING LEAR." - The New York Times
"Sebastian Barry's compassionate imaging of an ancestor he never knew is among the most poignant onstage displays of humanity in recent memory." - Variety
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LocationThe Commencement Bay Coffee Company
2354 S. Jefferson Ave.
Tacoma, WA 98402
United States
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