on the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage
By Brian Friel
Directed by Charlotte Moore
Starring Roger Dominic Casey, Meg Hennessy, Tom Holcomb, Colin Lane, Shane McNaughton, Tim Ruddy, Danielle Ryan and Sarah Street
“MOVING and exquisitely acted; nearly FLAWLESS work under artistic director Charlotte Moore; the company, which celebrates its 35th season this year is one of the city’s theatrical treasures” — Charles Isherwood, The Wall Street Journal
“BEAUTIFULLY CALIBRATED” — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker
“EXQUISITELY knowing, DISTINCTLY CHEKHOVIAN play, has the power to grab us” — Laura Collins-Hughes, The New York Times
“In Charlotte Moore’s BEAUTIFULLY MODULATED PRODUCTION, they [the characters] are brought to vivid, unsentimental life by a MARVELOUS ENSEMBLE” — David Barbour, Lighting & Sound America
“A POTENT, POIGNANT revival” — NY Sun
“Under Charlotte Moore’s deft, unhurried direction, each part shines with time for the audience to absorb their individual stories…with an OUTSTANDING CAST“—Exeunt NYC
January 11 — March 3, 2024
Set in Ballybeg Hall in County Donegal, Brian Friel’s Chekhovian masterpiece chronicles the decaying home of District Justice O’Donnell, where the family congregate for a wedding, but stay to attend a funeral. Friel’s tale of three sisters and their ‘eccentric’ brother reveals the way in which the ache of one family becomes the microcosm for the ache of a society.
Aristocrats was first produced in March 1979 at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
Irish Repertory Theatre hosted a revival of Aristocrats in 2009, directed by Charlotte Moore. The production featured John Keating, Geddeth Smith, Lynn Hawley, Orlagh Cassidy and Laura Odeh, and was described as a “first – rate revival” by The New York Times, and praised for a “top flight ensemble” by The New York Daily News.