Encounters with Jack B. Yeats; Episode 5 - The Green Wave

<p>In the fifth episode of ‘Encounters with Jack B. Yeats,’ The Model home of the Niland Collection, present a one-act conversation piece, <em>The Green Wave</em>, written by Jack B. Yeats, and adapted for this podcast as a short radio play. The parts of the two main characters are performed by actors, Ciarán McCauley (1st Elderly Man) and Bob Kelly (2ndElderly Man). <em>The</em> <em>Green</em> <em>Wave</em> was initially intended as a companion piece or prologue to Jack’s last full-length play <em>In</em> <em>Sand</em>, which was written in 1943,<a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish#_ftn1">[1]</a> during the period of the Second World War, when Jack was 72 years old. <em>The Green Wave</em> was never performed during the artist’s lifetime.</p> <p><a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/new/publish#_ftnref1">[1]</a> John W. Purser, ‘The Literary Works of Jack B. Yeats,’ 1991, pp.20-21</p>