Some Theatrical Plays for You to Enjoy This Week and Next
February 24, 2021 12:25 PM Subscribe
The Irish Repertory Theatre is holding an online theatre festival. Cost is pay what you can. The offerings appear to be outstanding and include:
Conor McPherson's The Weir..
Aedín Moloney & Colum McCann's Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom.
Geraldine Hughes' Belfast Blues.
Bill Irwin's On Beckett. As well as
Meet Me in St. Louis
and
Paul Durcan's Give Me Your Hand - A poetical stroll through the National Gallery of London, performed by Dermot Crowley & Dearbhla Molloy.
Click on the links for reviews. The plays have been well-received by the critics at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Other plays are Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney..
Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet.
Barry Day's Love, Noel, the songs and letters of Noel Coward.
Enjoy!
Click on the links for reviews. The plays have been well-received by the critics at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Other plays are Brian Friel's Molly Sweeney..
Eugene O'Neill's A Touch of the Poet.
Barry Day's Love, Noel, the songs and letters of Noel Coward.
Enjoy!
This looks amazing. Thanks for posting.
posted by roolya_boolya at 4:05 PM on February 24, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by roolya_boolya at 4:05 PM on February 24, 2021 [1 favorite]
Thanks so much for this - I've lined up my weekend viewing plans for the next two weeks.
posted by marguerite at 6:11 PM on February 24, 2021
posted by marguerite at 6:11 PM on February 24, 2021
Y'all are so very welcome! If you end up liking something pls post a comment.
posted by storybored at 9:08 PM on February 24, 2021
posted by storybored at 9:08 PM on February 24, 2021
Great stuff! Thank you for this - I'm especially looking forward to seeing The Weir again.
posted by Fuchsoid at 12:57 AM on February 25, 2021
posted by Fuchsoid at 12:57 AM on February 25, 2021
Looking forward to seeing "The Weir." It's one of my favorite plays, and attending a production was one of the last things my family did together before my sister passed away.
posted by KingEdRa at 6:38 AM on February 25, 2021
posted by KingEdRa at 6:38 AM on February 25, 2021
From an article on this in today's NYTimes, a fascinating statistic:
"Even more striking: 80 percent of those who have watched an Irish Rep production over the last year are newbies who have never been to the company’s 148-seat theater, nestled in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. “We’re batting down barriers we’ve been wrestling with for decades,” said Frances Howorth, the theater’s director of marketing and digital strategy. “We’ve reached audiences we couldn’t have imagined reaching.”
I am so, so desperate to be back at work on stage. But the paragraph above fills me with wonder and a sense of possibility. I mean, it's one thing for Hamilton and Browadway HD to have a wide reach - but Irish Rep? I somehow didn't imagine a company of that size could reach the world in this way, and suddenly I can begin to imagine a future in which the work I most like to do - the intimate and small-scale and weird and obscure - isn't limited to those who can fit into a small theater on any given night.
posted by minervous at 7:08 AM on February 25, 2021 [5 favorites]
"Even more striking: 80 percent of those who have watched an Irish Rep production over the last year are newbies who have never been to the company’s 148-seat theater, nestled in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. “We’re batting down barriers we’ve been wrestling with for decades,” said Frances Howorth, the theater’s director of marketing and digital strategy. “We’ve reached audiences we couldn’t have imagined reaching.”
I am so, so desperate to be back at work on stage. But the paragraph above fills me with wonder and a sense of possibility. I mean, it's one thing for Hamilton and Browadway HD to have a wide reach - but Irish Rep? I somehow didn't imagine a company of that size could reach the world in this way, and suddenly I can begin to imagine a future in which the work I most like to do - the intimate and small-scale and weird and obscure - isn't limited to those who can fit into a small theater on any given night.
posted by minervous at 7:08 AM on February 25, 2021 [5 favorites]
I saw the Weir online-- it was an awesome use of the form.
posted by sandmanwv at 1:38 PM on February 25, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by sandmanwv at 1:38 PM on February 25, 2021 [1 favorite]
Will be seeing that on Sunday afternoon!
Tonite I caught On Beckett. I liked it. I know just about nothing about Beckett and this was a nice dive in.
posted by storybored at 5:58 PM on February 25, 2021
Tonite I caught On Beckett. I liked it. I know just about nothing about Beckett and this was a nice dive in.
posted by storybored at 5:58 PM on February 25, 2021
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