Podcast feedInterview with Sharon Sexton, star of 'A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary'
April 24th is the official one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Commemorations are already underway to mark the week hundreds of people, mostly in Dublin, rose up to fight against British rule. After six days the struggle ended in an unconditional surrender. The seven men who planned the revolt were executed. But knowing that might be their fate they’d already chosen someone to carry on their work: Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of their number, Thomas Clarke.
She was under strict instructions to stay home, guard the secrets, look out for the welfare of the fighters’ families and keep the flame burning.
What Kathleen endured during those days has been dramatised by Irish actress Sharon Sexton. She’s performing her one woman play “A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary” at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square from the 29th of March until the 2nd of April.
Sharon has appeared in London in The Commitments and is currently in Billy Elliott. She’s hoping to take her play around Britain and to Ireland later in the year. Sharon was keen to look at the role taken by women in the Rising, which has often been overlooked. She originally planned to follow a number of stories but as her research progressed she found there was just so much to say about Kathleen Clarke’s life that she had to focus on her. Catherine Carroll asked Sharon to describe the subject of her play.
Package by Catherine Carroll
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This month in the World of Whoa! the things that have been stopping host Catherine Carroll in her tracks are a play about the Easter Rising by Sharon Sexton, the sad closure of our favourite local café, and the return of 90’s girlband legends All Saints to Camden.
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- Sharon Sexton's play at London Irish Centre
- All Saints at Koko
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What's on in Camden from 12th April 2015
15th April: Camden History Group hosts Danny Nissim on changes to the South Bank: 16th April: Ruth Leibman ‘The Spring Collection’ opens at WAC: 17h April: ‘Score’ opens at Camden People’s Theatre: April 22nd, ‘Workers before during and after the 1916 Rising’: Ongoing: ‘Four Visions for the Future of Housing’ is at the Royal Academy. Into your calendar for May 1st: ‘Speakeasy Jazzmen’ at Camden Square Gardens; Book ahead for London Irish Writers Summer School.
Read by: Angela Routley, Daniela Manning, Freddy Chick, Joe Hughes & Marian Larragy.
Edited by: Marian Larragy
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Whats On 9th April 2011
This week we talk about The Drill Hall Darlings
Other events happening in Camden this week include:
Nitty at The Constitution Pub
The Bowery Comedy Bin
Folk Rising at Cecil Sharp House
The World Service Project at The Forge in Delancey Street
& Parliament Hill Fields
Read by:
Aaron McCarter, Marian Larragy, Martin Lim & DJ Rudeboy P. Tosh
Edited by: Aaron McCarter
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