Irish Heritage Theatre
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‘Duffy’s Cut’: Local Oncology Nurse and Playwright Tells a Ghost Story with a Modern Moral
When Einstein oncology nurse Liz Kerr sat down to write an ambitious three-act play about 57 Irish railroad workers and two women buried in a deep mass grave not far from the tracks in East Whiteland Township, she had an unusual muse. It was the ghost of young John Ruddy, believed to have been savagely murdered by nativists who wrongly blamed the Irish for bringing cholera to a nearby town near the worksite now known […] Read More