Irish Drama.
New York Style.
A Celebration in His Own Words with Music & Song
directed by Charlotte Moore
An evening of readings, dance, and music capturing the incredible beauty, wit, and poignancy of Yeats’ poetry and illuminating the poet’s legacy for Irish culture around the world.
Monday, April 17, 1989
7:00 pm At The Public Theater
Creative Team:
Lighting: Richard Clausen
Set: Patricia Heitman
by Tom Murphy
directed by Charlotte Moore
Spring 1989
At the 18th Street Playhouse
Michael Carney has left Mayo for Coventry, hoping to leave behind his homeland and his past with modest ambitions for a decent job and respectable family. However, he is relentlessly pursued by his past: a past that is both the flesh of his own family and the soured spirit of a haunted, marginalized people. With tragic inevitability, the impossibility of escape from his own dark history becomes all too obvious.
“The most powerful contemporary play this season” –New York Times
“the evening coils up into a fist and strikes home with wonderful acting” –New York Post
“A thrill performance… ignites a powder keg on stage!” – New York Daily News
Our first production
by Sean O’Casey
directed by Charlotte Moore
September 15 – October 9, 1988
At the 18th Street Playhouse
As revolution sweeps Ireland, the residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through the city’s streets. Sean O’Casey—one of Ireland’s most renowned and controversial playwrights—captures a conflict between idealism and ordinary lives
“One of (O’Casey’s) most compelling works.” –New York Times
Creative Team:
Set Design: Dana De Ville
Lighting Design: Richard Clausen
Sound: Mike Lamberton
Costumes: Natalie Walker
Stage Manager: Kathe Mull
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