The Golden Key

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Chris Dolan’s play explores the early days of the Home Rule movement in Scotland through the eyes of three of the 20th century’s most compelling political figures – Keir Hardie, James Connolly and R.B. Cunninghame Graham. On May 12, 1916, Cunninghame Graham smokes a cigarette - as he’s done every year for a decade - at his wife’s grave. He has just heard the news of Connolly’s imminent execution by the British Government for his role in the Easter Rising in Dublin. Graham casts his mind back to a meeting with Hardie and Connolly almost 30 years earlier when the Scottish Labour Party was first stirring into life. R.B. Cunninghame Graham………………………….…..David Robb Keir Hardie……………………………………………………….Robert Jack Gabriella Cunnninghame Graham……………………Melody Grove James Connolly…………………………………………………Martin Quinn Producer/director: Bruce Young