Sive / ˈ s aɪ v / is a play by the Irish writer John B. Keane, first performed in Listowel, County Kerry in 1959. [1] Keane chose to use the name "Sive" for the play in honour of his sister, Shiela, using the Irish-Gaelic form of the name.

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premiered Sive on 2 February 1959 in Walsh's Ballroom, Listowel. The play went on to win the All-Ireland Amateur Drama Final in Athlone in 1959. In the same year, the Abbey Theatre invited Listowel Drama Group to perform Sive for one week, which they did to popular acclaim. - ‘The popularity of Sive established John B. as a writer and gave

May 26, 2024 · Set in 1950s, rural Ireland, Sive tells the story of a beautiful young woman being forced to wed a withered, old man. Sive, the chief character, attends a convent school and is already romantically involved with a handsome young man, but this is not enough to protect her.

Mar 1, 2018 · While Nana dotes on her orphaned granddaughter, Sive, Mena plots to marry the young girl off to an old local farmer for the promise of land and a chance to escape from poverty. Written in 1959, Sive has become an Irish classic and one of the nation's best loved plays.

john b. keane’s sive—exposing irish society By Fiona Brennan The dramatic tragedy Sive, written by the Kerry playwright John B. Keane, enjoys iconic status within the annals of Irish theatre history.

Sive struck a chord with its intimate yet unromantic view of life in rural Ireland at its first performance by the Listowel Amateur Drama Group at Walsh’s Ballroom in Kerry on 2nd February 1959.

Oct 4, 2021 · The story of the beautiful young orphan, Sive, who takes her life rather than consent to a match to an old man, the play explores dark themes in rural Ireland including attitudes to...

Written in 1959, its tale of an orphaned teenage girl forced into an arranged marriage is not something most Irish women can relate to these days. Nor are the trials and tribulations of the 1950s, like the scandal of children born out of wedlock.

Jan 31, 2024 · To some of the embittered people in John B Keane’s mid-20th-century drama of coercion and greed, the young girl Sive is seen as having delusions of grandeur. Promised a school education by her...