Irish Repertory Theatre

Irish Drama.
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Digital Fall Season

Digital Fall Season

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!

PERFORMANCES ON SCREEN:

Belfast Blues

Written and performed by Geraldine Hughes
Stage Production Directed by Carol Kane
Filmed at Lyric Theatre, Belfast

September 22 – September 27, 2020

Passionate, riveting, and often humorous, Belfast Blues is a tapestry of autobiographical stories told from Hughes’ perspective as a little girl coming of age in the war-torn Belfast of the 1980s. These stories bear insightful witness to the many faces of “trying to live a normal life” amidst the violence born of the longstanding conflict between Catholics and Protestants.

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Give Me Your Hand

A Poetical Stroll through The National Gallery of London
Poems by Paul Durcan
Starring Dermot Crowley & Dearbhla Molloy
Directed by Jamie Beamish

October 13 – October 18, 2020

In this special engagement, two of Ireland’s finest actors, Dearbhla Molloy and Dermot Crowley, take audiences on a virtual stroll through London’s National Gallery, discovering afresh the Museum’s masterpieces from Van Gogh and Van Eyck, to Rubens and Gainsborough with poetic stories from renowned Irish poet Paul Durcan.

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A Touch of the Poet

by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Ciarán O’Reilly

October 27 – November 1, 2020

“Perfectly cast and staged…a shining model for any company putting its work online” – Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

Proud and tempestuous Cornelius Melody owns a run-down inn and tavern near Boston in 1828. Laden with debt, Con clings to his tenuous identity as a landed gentleman and war hero and chastises his wife and daughter for actions that expose the family’s humble Irish origins. When his daughter, Mary, 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.

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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.

 

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 Meet Me in St. Louis

Book by Hugh Wheeler
Songs by Hugh Martin & Ralph Blane
Based on The Kensington Stories by Sally Benson
and the MGM Motion Picture Meet Me in St. Louis

Adapted & Directed by Charlotte Moore

Music Direction by John Bell
Orchestrations by Josh Clayton

Produced by Ciarán O’Reilly

December 11, 2020 – January 2, 2021

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UPCOMING DIGITAL EVENTS:

Gregory Harrington: A Concert from the Irish Rep Stage

Featuring Gregory Harrington
with Eleanor Norton and Philip Sheegog
Irish Repertory Theatre is excited to announce the return of this anticipated event as an online concert from the Irish Rep stage! Joined by cellists Eleanor Norton and Philip Sheegog, Harrington will kick off our Digital Fall Season with an Irish themed concert of new arrangements of traditional Irish and Celtic influenced tunes ranging from “Shenandoah” and “The Parting Glass” to “The Last Rose of Summer” and a special take on O’Corolan’s “Concerto.”

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A Beggar upon Horseback / A Beggar on Foot

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 Miriam Nyhan Grey.

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Plaugey hill

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.

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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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Follow Irish Rep Online!

To keep up our online initiatives during the hiatus, follow our social media accounts below or the hashtags #IrishRepOnline, #IRTMeetTheMakers, and #TheShowMustGoOnline
Twitter: @IrishRep
Instagram: @Irish_Rep
Videos will also be posted online at irishrep.org
To join in the fun – post your own video, tag the accounts, and use the hashtags above!