Pictorial postcard written from a prisoner of war camp, Karlsruhe, Germany, about performing Lady Gregory’s play The Rising of the Moon

Pictorial postcard written from a prisoner of war camp, Karlsruhe, Germany, about performing Lady Gregory’s play The Rising of the Moon

1917

Lieutenant John Martin, a former Abbey Theatre actor, taught Lady Gregory’s most acclaimed and political play to his fellow prisoners of war during their internment. War artist and poet Joseph Lee, who was also interned, chronicled life in the trenches and made several sketches of the production. This example was sent to Lady Gregory by Lee himself. Lady Gregory’s son, Robert, would die in the war a year later.