![]() In Rosemary Jenkinson’s Planet Belfast, Alice is Belfast’s only Green politician. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre Planet Belfast It’s a chance, boasts the struggling photographer, “to tell the world who Mathew Brady was and is!” Instead, Brady is drawn into a profound and personal battle.ģ:00 pm in the W. In Mathew Brady Presents, playwright Ray Sipherd looks at Brady years later when, forgotten and deeply in debt, the photographer has the chance to show his work before an elite Carnegie Hall audience. Mathew Brady described himself as “a poor boy, but of hardy Irish stock.” That poor boy rose to become one of the most celebrated photographers of his day and the great chronicler of the American Civil War. Greenburger Mainstage Mathew Brady Presents *courtesy of AEAģ:00 pm on the Francis J. The play’s language is choreographed as an exhilarating verbal ballet that includes love, death, sex, rock ‘n’ roll, ghosts, Gabriel Byrne, The Beatles, Abba, The Pogues, Simon Cowell, an unwanted son, a runaway Dad, a suicidal Mam, a predatory teacher, a sadistic landlord and the River Liffey. Jo Kinsella* and Laoisa Sexton* portray 26 characters in approximately 60 minutes at a rapid fire speed. The sisters were born and reside in Tallaght, a sexy, sassy but ultimately shambolic suburb of Dublin in the romantic Republic of old Ireland. The Ballad of Charlie and Cate is a darkly comic play that traces the rise and fall - and rise again - of two working class sisters, Cate and Charlie Maloney. ![]() Laoisa Sexton ………………Cate The Great Maloney Greenburger Mainstage The Ballad of Charlie & Cate The Flood is a play about forgiveness, perseverance and the urban paradox of solitude in a crowd of millions.ģ:00 pm on the Francis J. In The Flood, a raging storm gathers above New York and four friends come together to weather the tempest as their own private storm stirs within. The Flood will be read by Jessica Dick ( New Dramatists, EST), John Duddy* ( For Love, Father Who), Keira Keeley* ( The Tribute Artist, Angels in America) and Michael Salinas* ( Three Sisters, Festen) *courtesy of AEA The two men eventually come to an agreement but at a cost to both of them.ģ:00 pm on the Francis J. Rob eventually gets Hugh to discuss selling the field and when it comes to negotiating a price for the land Hugh proves himself to be far from the eejit he makes himself out to be. He regales the rather disinterested Rob with multiple stories of his adventures long ago in London, old pals in New York, ex-girlfriends who have passed on and the many escapades of his brother “the alco”. He expects to be able to negotiate a quick deal but since Hugh seldom has any visitors to his lonely farmstead, he is not about to let Rob slip away without a big chat first. In The Quare Land, 90-year-old Cavan bachelor farmer Hugh Pugh is taking his first bath in four years when he receives an unexpected visitor – Rob McNulty, a property developer under pressure to buy a field in order to extend his nine-hole golf course in Leitrim. The Quare Land will be read by Denis Butkus ( The Taming of the Shrew, The Coast of Utopia) and Peter Maloney* ( Outside Mullingar, John Guare’s Three Kinds of Exile) *courtesy of AEA The Moors is a dark comedy about love, desperation, and visibility.ģ:00 pm on the Francis J. The arrival of a hapless governess and a moor-hen set all three on a strange and dangerous path. Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, and dream of love and power. The Moors will be read by Bianca Amato* ( Private Lives, King Lear at TFANA), Hannah Cabell* ( Grounded, A Man For All Seasons) Billy Carter* ( All That Fall, The Weir), Susannah Flood* ( Love and Information, Mr Burns, a post-electric play), Mahira Kakkar* ( Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, When January Feels Like Summer) and Jeanine Serralles* ( The Muscles In Our Toes, The Jammer) *courtesy of AEA
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