In the fifth episode of ‘Encounters with Jack B. Yeats,’ The Model home of the Niland Collection, present a one-act conversation piece, The Green Wave, 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). The Green Wave was initially intended as a companion piece or prologue to Jack’s last full-length play In Sand, which was written in 1943,[1] during the period of the Second World War, when Jack was 72 years old. The Green Wave was never performed during the artist’s lifetime.

[1] John W. Purser, ‘The Literary Works of Jack B. Yeats,’ 1991, pp.20-21