The Lieutenant of lnishmore is a visual play and this aspect is important while work-shopping the play.

Scene Two - A safe way to get James strung up

• Get hold of an old pair of trousers and attach a shirt by safety pins or staple gun to the waist of these trousers.
• Hang the bottom of the trousers/shirt costume to a trouser clip hanger
• Add some fake blood to end of trouser legs.
• Attach a piece of rope around the hanger handle and slip up over a lighting bar so that the costume hangs upside down from the bar
• This creates a representation of James being hung up by Padraic. An actor can stand behind this representation of James during the workshops into this scene.

Scene Nine -Body parts

• Get hold of a couple of old pairs of trousers and shirts
• Cut off the anns and legs
• Stuff the legs and arms with pantyhose that is full of newspaper
• Sew or staple the separate ends of the legs and arms together. This means you will have 4 separate legs and 4 separate arms
• Cover these with fake blood.

Cats

You will need three toy cats:

• 1 black cat decapitated (this is the stray cat)
• 1 ginger cat to be boot polished black (this is Sir Roger)
• 1 ginger cat, which is polished black and is then decapitated (this is Sir Roger)
• The cat in the last scene is black and live -it is Wee Thomas, and the students could use their imaginary capacities for this event.

The cats's dramatic functions in the play

• Scene One -a dead cat with brains blown out. In the last scene we find out this was a stray cat but in scene one the characters and audience think it is Padraic's cat Wee Thomas
• Scene Two -Padraic get a message Wee Thomas is ailing
• Scene Three -Mairead and Christy accuse Davey of running over and killing the cat we have met in scene one
• Scene Four -a live ginger cat is on the set and is being polished with black boot polish so it looks like Wee Thomas. In Scene Nine we find out this was Sir Roger, Mairead's cat.
• Scene Five -The INLA men disclose that they ran over the cat from scene one. Mairead overhears
• Scene Six-Mairead does not disclose who ran over Padraic's cat
• Scene Seven -The same live ginger cat as from scene four but completed polished black
• Scene Eight - Padraic blows the brains out of this boot polished cat - he does not realise it is Mairead's cat Sir Roger
• Scene Nine - A live Wee Thomas strolls back onto the set - all the bloodshed has been for nothing.