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Who Played Needle Nugent in Juno and the Paycock

Needle Nugent is a role in Juno and the Paycock, a play that opened Off-Broadway in 2019.

Jack Boyle is out of work and determined to stay that way. He postures and drinks with his sidekick Joxer while his long-suffering wife Juno struggles to support their family and maintain their dilapidated tenement flat. Their son Johnny, crippled fighting in the revolution, cowers indoors to avoid the bitter new civil war, while his sister Mary considers her options for the future. When a handsome visitor arrives with news of an inheritance, the family begins to plan their new life, but their apparent salvation soon reveals itself to be the cause of their ruin. One of the great plays of the twentieth century, Juno and the Paycock is a devastating portrait of wasted potential in a Dublin torn apart by the chaos of the Irish Civil War. Premiering in 1924, just one year after Sean O'Casey's professional debut, Juno and the Paycock became the first play at The Abbey Theatre to run for more than one week. Its success allowed O'Casey to quit his road repair job and became a full-time writer at age 44. It has since become one of his most frequently performed plays and has been adapted several times, including into a 1930 film by Alfred Hitchcock and a 1959 Broadway musical entitled Juno. Irish Repertory Theatre has presented Juno and the Paycock twice previously (1995 & 2014), both directed by Charlotte Moore. Juno and the Paycock (1924), along with The Shadow of a Gunman (1923), and The Plough and the Stars (1926) make up Sean O'Casey's Dublin Trilogy (or Dublin Plays), presented here in repertory as Irish Rep's O'Casey Cycle, which established O'Casey as one of the major figures in modern drama. These masterpieces introduced O'Casey's innovative playwriting style, which balances deeply comic and tragic elements in an atmosphere of stark realism. These plays premiered during a time of revolution and civil strife throughout Ireland, proving both provocative and popular, and establishing O'Casey's legacy among the most influential and enduring playwrights in history. This spring, don't miss this rare opportunity to see Sean O'Casey's full Dublin Trilogy - subscribe to the O'Casey Cycle!

7 actors have played Needle Nugent in Juno and the Paycock.

View full cast of Juno and the Paycock

Performer Production Opened
Ralph Cullinan Broadway Juno and the Paycock 1926
J. A. O'Rourke Broadway Juno and the Paycock 1927
Udolphus Wright Broadway Juno and the Paycock 1934
Michael J. Dolan Broadway Juno and the Paycock 1937
Hale Norcross Broadway Juno and the Paycock 1940
Séamus Forde Broadway Juno and the Paycock 1988
Robert Langdon Lloyd Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019

Other Roles in Juno and the Paycock

Role Production Opened
Capt. Boyle Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Charles Bentham Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Ensemble Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Jerry Devine Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Johnny Boyle Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Joxer Daly Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Juno Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Mary Boyle Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Masie Madigan Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Mrs. Tancred Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019
Needle Nugent Off-Broadway Juno and the Paycock 2019

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