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Juno and the Paycock

American  
[pey-kok] / ˈpeɪ kɒk /

noun

  1. a play (1924) by Sean O'Casey.


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By July 1946, Belafonte was playing a leading role in the American Negro Theatre’s production of “Juno and the Paycock.”

From Los Angeles Times

Well, I love this one but outside of Succession, I adored Juno and the Paycock in the off-Broadway production.

From The Guardian

The casting director was taken aback, but mentioned him to Olivier, who gave him a part as an IRA man in Juno And The Paycock.

From The Guardian

While working on a book about the actor, the biographer Alexander Larman had a glimpse of screen versions of the Seán O’Casey play Juno and the Paycock, and Chekhov’s work Uncle Vanya.

From The Guardian

Further insights will emerge from the screenplays, he believes, noting that Juno and the Paycock, about the dysfunctional Boyle family living in Dublin tenements, has a character “who’s very similar to O’Toole’s father, who was quite a nasty man”.

From The Guardian