The Curious Case of Albert Cashier – Lincoln’s ‘Lady’ Soldier

Dates
12

October, 2023

8:00 pm

€17.50 - €19.5

About the event

Credits

Director
Anna Simpson
Set, Costume & Projection
Els Borghart
Declan Kelly
Lighting Design
Colin Doran
Executive Producer
Paul Hayes
Graphic Design
Niall O’Brien
CAST
Ceara Carney
Leah Rossiter
Anthony Kinahan
Fiona Keenan O’Brien
Mark O’Reilly

Quintessence Theatre

In association with Droichead Arts Centre

Present

THE CURIOUS CASE OF ALBERT CASHIER

LINCOLN’S ‘LADY’ SOLDIER

 

“Lincoln wanted soldiers. I wanted excitement”

 

Quintessence Theatre follow their successful National Tours of Cracks (2018) and The Star of Chester’s Lane (2021) with their thrilling new historical play based on the extraordinary true story of the Irish Transgender American War Hero, Albert D.J. Cashier

 

Belvidere, Illinois, 1862: A young Irishman, Albert D.J. Cashier, enlists with the Union Army in the Civil War and becomes a decorated hero. But unknown to his comrades, Private Cashier is waging an internal war all of his own. When he is fifty years a veteran an indiscreet doctor reveals to all of America that Cashier was assigned female at birth, born under the name Jennie Hodgers, from Clogherhead, Co. Louth, Ireland.

 

From that day on Albert’s greatest battle truly begins: for identity, selfhood, and truth.

 

In this original new play devised by the company, Quintessence Theatre use their innovative physical ensemble storytelling techniques mingled with multi-media of stunning projection and emotive music to dramatise the incredible true story of the Clogherhead-born Transgender soldier.

 

Directed by Anna Simpson (a Creative Associate of the Pleasance Theatre, London, and Practitioner with Shakespeare’s Globe) this exciting, moving & often comedic production, unearths a gem of a tale about a forgotten hero of Irish history, and explores urgent modern questions around gender, self-determination, and human tenacity, paralleling the struggles of the transgender community today.

 

Created in Association with Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda

Devised by Quintessence Theatre

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