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Liverpool Playwright Lizzie Nunnery Presents To Have to Shoot Irishmen – A Powerful True Story Of Events During The Easter Rising.

Fresh from her Everyman Company 2017 production of The Sum and acclaimed play Narvik, winning last year’s Best New Play Award at the U.K. Theatre Awards, Liverpool playwright and songwriter Lizzie Nunnery returns to the Everyman to premiere her new play with songs To Have to Shoot Irishmen.

Inspired by the true murder of Irish pacifist Francis Sheehy Skeffington by a British soldier during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the new play explores fractured national identity and the chaotic legacy of British military intervention.

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(449 words, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)