2014 The Silver Tassie - National Theatre Posters

O’Casey’s anti-war play, written in the late 1920s, is renowned for its unsparing and unsentimental treatment of the First World War. Ronan Raftery played the soldier Harry Heegan, and Edelstein’s gritty portrait depicts him as a character whose initial optimism will be crushed by his experience of the horrors of war.