

QUINTESSENCE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS THE CURIOUS CASE OF ALBERT CASHIER
28 September @8:00 pm
| €16 – €18National Tour of our thrilling, historical play inspired by the extraordinary true story of an Irish Transgender American War Hero:
THE CURIOUS CASE OF ALBERT CASHIER: LINCOLN’S ‘LADY’ SOLDIER.
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.
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