Poster for Jack Be Nimble

This poster for Jack Be Nimble highlights an early production by Patrick Mason in his Abbey career. Having previously worked at the Abbey as a Voice and Movement Coach this marks his directorial debut in 1976. It is also the beginning of his long collaboration with Tom MacIntyre. Their most famous collaboration The Great Hunger with actor Tom Hickey is recounted in The Great Hunger, a podcast from our Oral History Project.

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