Review: Shall Roger Casement Hang? – Tron Theatre, Glasgow

First published in The Times, Tuesday May 24 2016

Four Stars

To say that Roger Casement was a complex and paradoxical figure is something of an understatement. A Protestant, born to an Anglo-Irish family, he worked as a diplomat for the British government, receiving a knighthood. Yet he is remembered today as the revolutionary Irish nationalist who attempted to enlist German military aid for the 1916 Easter Uprising.