Theatre Sunday 2:00 pm Room 109
“A Table For Two At The Dill Pickle” starring Brigid Gerace as #MotherJones and Will Clinger as Big Jim Larkin.
This one-act play, by Larry Kirwan, Black 47 musician and playwright (Paradise Square) imagines a witty and powerful conversation between two early twentieth century Irish labor rebels: Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, the most dangerous woman in America and Big Jim Larkin, the radical Irish exile, founder of the Irish Transport & General Workers Union, and a key player in the fight for Irish independence. It is staged at the notorious Dill Pickle, Chicago's bohemian and labor hangout near Bughouse Square & Newberry Library. It takes place in 1919 just as political and labor repression is descending and before Larkin ends up in Sing Sing.
Brigid Duffy as Mary Harris "Mother Jones
Will Clinger as Big Jim Larkin