THE fabulous show Blood Upon the Rose is all set for its third return to Glasgow and the wonderful SEC Armadillo Theatre (above).
Some 1000 tickets have already been sold by the River Tall Community Theatre Group. something writer and director Gerry Cunningham described as ‘a phenomenal achievement.’
After sell-out shows all over the north and south of Ireland—including two huge nights in the Waterfront Hall in Belfast—it was decided to bring the show back to Glasgow.
With a cast, orchestra and backstage team numbering more than 50, taking the show to Glasgow was a huge task, but ticket sales have been so strong that the organisers have decided the Glasgow audience should be well rewarded.
The show tells the story of Grace Gifford, a young Dublin lady from the home of a staunch Unionist family and Joseph Plunkett, a leading revolutionary in the Easter Rising of 1916. Their love, marriage and Plunkett's subsequent execution the morning after their marriage in Kilmainham jail, touched the hearts of a nation and to this day the story is immortalised in the beautiful song Grace written in 1985 by Sean and Frank O’Meara.
The love story is set against the background of the Easter Rising 1916 and also involves the internal struggles within the Irish Volunteers lead by Eoin McNeil and Padraig Pearse leader of the IRB, the secret Republican movement which had successfully infiltrated all units of the Irish Volunteers.
The show is once again set to stir our emotions and brings us right into the heart of Dublin Easter 1916 and indeed the struggle inside the in the GPO.
Margaret Skinnider, Seamus Robinson, Seamus Reader, Charlie Carrigan and many more from the Glasgow area—including 18 members of Joseph Plunkett’s Kimmage Army—all contributed greatly to the rising in Dublin and James Connolly, one of the leaders executed, was from Edinburgh, so the return of Blood Upon the Rose will help to ensure that Scotland’s proud tradition lives on.
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