A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN
* Open Captioned Performance
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 humor and grace, Crowley and Molloy breathe fresh life into each painting’s subjects with poetic stories from renowned Irish poet Paul Durcan.
Irish Repertory Theatre presented the virtual reimagining of this beloved production as part of it’s Digital Fall Season in October of 2020. Give Me Your Hand premiered in London in 2010 and received its American Premiere in 2012 in Irish Rep’s W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre.
Reservations are free but required to access this digital event. A donation of $25 for the show, or $100 for the Festival, is suggested for those who can afford to give.*
*From February 22 through March 7, 2021, we will donate 20% of suggested donations received (up to $5,000) to the Cultural Solidarity Fund, a new fund that provides microgrants to individual artists and cultural workers.
Read the performance program here!
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“Intimate, varied, and engaging… Durcan’s personal poetic interpretations are delivered with humor, heart, and humanity by Dearbhla Molloy and Dermot Crowley.” — DC Metro Arts
“Give Me Your Hand offers a soul-restoring reconnection with civilization, a combination of gorgeous visuals with the ideas of a highly original mind.” — Lighting & Sound America
PRESS FROM OUR 2012 PRODUCTION OF GIVE ME YOUR HAND:
“Mr. Crowley and Ms. Molloy are fine company. It’s all too easy to give them that requested hand.” — New York Times
CRITIC’S PICK! “Crowley is endearing and passionate… a most amusing evening.” — Backstage
“a a lighthearted, entertaining evening of theatrical originality.” — WomanAroundTown
Special Thanks:
Irish Rep would also like to thank The National Gallery, London and The Coronet Theatre, London.
Give Me Your Hand is produced under the SAG -AFTRA New Media Agreement.
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