Irish Repertory Theatre

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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!

Don’t miss our season kickoff on Thursday, September 17: a one-night-only concert by violinist Gregory Harrington!

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES ON SCREEN:

Belfast Blues

Written and performed by Geraldine Hughes
Stage Production Directed by Carol Kane
Filmed at Lyric Theatre, Belfast
Geraldine Hughes, the celebrated star of our first Performance on Screen, Molly Sweeney, opens our fall season with her powerful autobiographical work, Belfast Blues. Passionate, riveting, and often humorous, Belfast Blues is a tapestry of stories told from Hughes’ perspective as a little girl coming of age in the war-torn Belfast of the 1980s. After touring this acclaimed play for fifteen years, last year Hughes recorded its final performances; we are proud to share them.

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Give Me Your Hand

A poetical stroll through the National Gallery of London
by Paul Durcan
Directed by Jamie Beamish
Starring Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy
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. With humor and grace, Crowley and Molly breathe fresh life into each painting’s subjects 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
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.

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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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A Child’s Christmas in Wales In Concert

By Dylan Thomas
Adapted and directed by Charlotte Moore
Musical direction by John Bell
December 2020
Reservations will be available on Friday, October 30 at 1pm.
This holiday season, experience a new concert version of Irish Rep’s favorite holiday tradition, a joyous musical celebration of Dylan Thomas’ iconic story, A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

UPCOMING DIGITAL EVENTS:

Gregory Harrington: A Concert from the Irish Rep Stage

Gregory Harrington returns with 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 a concert of new arrangements of traditional Irish and Celtic influenced tunes!

 

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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.

 

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!