The Irish are coming! The Irish are coming! In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the Easter Rising that spurred the Irish independence movement, a pair of Irish theater companies are performing in Boston. First up is the Abbey Theatre’s production of Sean O’Casey’s 1926 play The Plough and the Stars, which tells the Easter Rising story through the eyes of residents of a Dublin tenement. Directed by Olivier Award winner Sean Holmes, the play hits the A.R.T.’s Loeb Drama Center Sept. 24-Oct. 9. Also dropping anchor in Boston is Gare St Lazare Ireland, a theater company that specializes in bringing Samuel Beckett’s works to life. Here All Night uses music from his novel Watt and spoken word from Beckett’s other texts. Catch the New England premiere Oct. 5-9 at the Emerson/Paramount Mainstage, and stick around for post-performance, onstage viewings of Brian O’Doherty’s Hello Sam exhibit—an ode to Beckett used as part of the set.
THE IMPROPER’S 2016 FALL ARTS PREVIEW: DANCE | VISUAL ARTS | MUSIC | COMEDY
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By Matt Martinelli | Photo Credit: The Plough and the Stars: Ros Kavanagh | Sept. 16, 2016
Irish Invasion
The Irish are coming! The Irish are coming! In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the Easter Rising that spurred the Irish independence movement, a pair of Irish theater companies are performing in Boston. First up is the Abbey Theatre’s production of Sean O’Casey’s 1926 play The Plough and the Stars, which tells the Easter Rising story through the eyes of residents of a Dublin tenement. Directed by Olivier Award winner Sean Holmes, the play hits the A.R.T.’s Loeb Drama Center Sept. 24-Oct. 9. Also dropping anchor in Boston is Gare St Lazare Ireland, a theater company that specializes in bringing Samuel Beckett’s works to life. Here All Night uses music from his novel Watt and spoken word from Beckett’s other texts. Catch the New England premiere Oct. 5-9 at the Emerson/Paramount Mainstage, and stick around for post-performance, onstage viewings of Brian O’Doherty’s Hello Sam exhibit—an ode to Beckett used as part of the set.
THE IMPROPER’S 2016 FALL ARTS PREVIEW: DANCE | VISUAL ARTS | MUSIC | COMEDY
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