The Shaughraun review – comic antics and roguish charm in a divided Ireland
This review covers Druid theatre company's staging of Dion Boucicault's 1874 comic melodrama The Shaughraun at Town Hall theatre, Galway, directed by Garry Hynes. The production is praised for balancing whimsy with sincerity while honouring Boucicault's historical significance as a playwright whose work once dazzled 19th-century audiences in New York and London, and for highlighting…