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THE SIXTH YEAR PLAY

Billy Budd by Louis Coxe and Robert Chapman

CAST

Edward Fairfax Vere Ian Brennan
Philip Michael Seymour Fintan O’Higgins
John Ratcliffe Frank Armstrong
Bordman Wyatt Fergal McGrath
Gardiner John Feeney
Rea Daniel Horan
Surgeon Conor Scott
John Claggart Ronan McCullough
Squeak Robert Murtagh
The Dansker Barry Cunnane
Jenkins Cillian Barry
Payne David Hayes
Kincaid Peter Duff
O’Daniel Rupert Egan
Butler Garrett O’Rorke
Talbot Mark O’Brien
Jackson Conor Farrell
Billy Budd Patrick Stephenson
Hallam Niall Tempany
Marine David Mulrooney
Stoll Garfield Spollen
Messboy Martin Naughton
Duncan Brian Horkan
Byren Cormac Mullen
Singer Adrian O’Brien
Drummer Barry Brophy
Whistler John Quinn

Petty Officers and Sailors:
lan Clarke, Tom Eustace, Hugh Ormond, Eoin Lawless, Mark Quinn,
Paul Sheahan, David Talbot.

After last year's Twelve Angry Men. a light­ and probe down further into the black
hearted caper that splashed about in the depths of the psyche and the unfathomable
rockpools of wit and skimmed flat stones reaches of the human soul. What we
over the great ocean of Thespis, it was time needed was a proper, heart-melting tragedy
for some real drama. So, leaving behind the with extra helpings of good old-fashioned
gay banter of Life and Death in American Aristotelian catharsis and a pinch of
society, Mr Bevan resolved to take a breath homosexual innuendo to taste.

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