Purple Dust - (1956) Paul Shyre Harry Bannister - Cherry Lane Theatre

Purple Dust (1943) follows two wealthy, materialistic English stockbrokers who buy an ancient Irish mansion and attempt to restore it with their wrong notions of Tudor customs and taste. They try to impose upon a community with vastly different customs and lifestyles that are much closer to ancient Gaelic ways and are against such false values. The Englishmen set their opposing standards against those represented by the men employed to renovate the house. In the resulting confrontation the English are satirised and in the end disappointed when a symbolic storm destroys their dream of resettling the old into the present. The hint that is enforced by the conclusion is that the little heap of purple dust that remains will be swept away by the rising winds of change, like the residue of pompous imperialism that abides in Ireland. The show has been compared to Shaw's John Bull's Other Island, which was one of O'Casey's favourites, but aside from a few similarities, there are no real grounds for comparison

Purple Dust Cast  - Paul Shyre, Howard Gottfried, Noel Behn, Harry Bannister, Scottie MacGregor, Brendan Burke, Paul Shyre

Directed by Philip Burton - Setting/Lighting/Costumes by Lester Polakov

Playbill Date : Dec 27, 1956

PURPLE DUST RAN FOR 430 PERFORMANCES, LONGER THAN AN O’CASEY PLAY HAD EVER RUN ANYWHERE.

Playbill / Program Size 165 x 230 mm 
Condition: Used Fair - Good

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