We are excited to share our Digital Fall Season with you!
Our Digital Fall Season features five Performances on Screen and three special events. All events are free, with donations suggested for those who can afford to give! Reservations are required in order to access Performances on Screen, and captions are available on Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees.
Public reservations are available now!
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES ON SCREEN:
A Touch of The Poet
by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly
With Belle Aykroyd, Ciaran Byrne, Robert Cuccioli, Kate Forbes, Mary McCann, Andy Murray, David O’Hara, Tim Ruddy, David Sitler, and John C. Vennema
The team behind Irish Rep’s acclaimed The Weir: A Performance on Screen returns to create a digital production of A Touch of the Poet, Eugene O’Neill’s tragic tale about the immigrant experience and generational aspiration. Cornelius Melody owns a run-down inn and tavern near Boston in 1828. When his daughter falls in love with a wealthy American guest at their inn, Con’s pride drives him to an explosive reckoning with his true place in the New World.
On Beckett / In Screen
An Exploration of the Works of Samuel Beckett
Conceived and Performed by Bill Irwin
Tony Award-winner Bill Irwin can’t escape Samuel Beckett. The pandemic hasn’t changed this. Two years ago, Irwin took the Irish Rep stage to premiere On Beckett, his award-winning meditation on Samuel Beckett’s works and language. For this new digital work, Irwin revisits the words of Samuel Beckett, and returns alone to the Irish Rep stage, to bring us On Beckett / In Screen, a new meditation for our current times.
UPCOMING DIGITAL EVENTS:
A Beggar upon Horseback / A Beggar on Foot
Part 1: A Beggar Upon Horseback: The Context, From Frederick Douglass to Today: Monday, November 9, 2020
Part 2: A Beggar on Foot: Creating Change in Irish Arts: Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Marking the 175th anniversary of abolitionist Frederick Douglass’ trip to Ireland, and in commitment to amplifying Black voices, we will be hosting a two-part discussion on Race and Irish-America, featuring John Douglas Thompson reading Douglass’ Letter from Belfast, and a panel with Dr Miram Nyhan Grey.
Plaguey Hill: A New Work by Paul Muldoon
Read by Liev Schreiber
Irish Rep is proud to present a reading of Plaguey Hill, a new work by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Paul Muldoon, read by Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber. Plaguey Hill is an impressionistic account of day-to-day life during the Covid-19 pandemic. The poem takes the form of an intricately locked series of 15 sonnets known as a crown, or corona.
Critical Response to our Online Summer Season:
“Irish Rep is now way out in front of every other company in America when it comes to marrying technical innovation with artistic quality” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal
“No one produces Irish playwrights better than the Irish Repertory Theatre. And that has set them both up perfectly for the Zoom age…The result is as close to a theatrical experience as one can hope for these days.” – Joe Westerfield, Newsweek
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