THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN, JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, and THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS

These three plays have a vitally important character in common. No actor has ever played the character. It doesn't have a word let alone a line. It is a place, in a time we were fighting our way out of England's grip into the light of freedom. It's name is Dublin City. Only James Joyce can compete with O'Casey when it comes to writing about those times, that place and the good, the beautiful, the brave, the cowardly, the heroic, the outrageously funny, tragic, saintly, and devilish men and women that we call Dubliners. "Them tree is play-ez!"

Dearbhla Molloy (left) as Juno Boyle and Jim Norton as Captain Jack Boyle in the 2000 Roundabout Theater Company production of the Juno and The Paycock in NYC.