Gone Tomorrow & The Workhouse Ward by Lady Augusta Gregory (Comedy)
Directed by Linda Kalturnyk
Gone Tomorrow is a hilarious study of an Irish-American family waiting for an aged uncle to die so that they can divvy up whatever money he might have saved. The aged uncle, however, is a contrary old harp who vehemently declines to go on his last journey until he is darn good and ready. Harrity’s knowledge of the Irish enables him to write a rib-tickling comedy that is in the best Abbey Theatre tradition.
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January Production – part of the MTC Master Playwrights Festival O’NeillFest 2006
The Rope by Eugene O’Neill (Drama)
Directed by Paul Gray
The Rope is among O’Neill’s earliest works – part of the One-Act Sea Plays – and was originally produced in 1918 by The Provincetown Players, a leading group of playwrights and intellectuals that included O’Neill himself, and who defined themselves as “anticomercial” (sic). It is the story of a bitter and ailing old man and his desperate and poverty-stricken family, each of them pursuing their own agendas as they wait for him to die. Moody and unpredictable as the characters themselves, The Rope unveils the bitter consequences of greed, the scarring effects of family strife, and focuses on one of O’Neill’s central themes – that of man’s inability to control his own destiny, despite futile attempts to do so.
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February Production
Anyone Could Rob a Bank by Thomas Coffey (Comedy)
Directed by Brendan Carruthers
First produced by The Abbey Theatre in August 1960, this award-winning play tells the story of three men-Badger, Jereen and Windy-who discuss how easy it would be to rob the local bank and come up with the perfect plan. When they wake up to the news that the local bank has been robbed using their very plan, they begin to suspect each other. This play has been praised for its laugh-a-minute, lightning fast paced dialogue and its comedy of errors style.
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March Double-Bill
Thirst by Flann O’Brien (Comedy)
The Tinker’s Wedding – by J.M. Synge (drama/comedy)
Directed by Robert Wall
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April Production
Poor Beast in the Rain by Billy Roche (drama/comedy)
Directed by Rob Kwade
This production was featured in the Acting Irish International Theatre Festival, Toronto May 30th to June 3rd, 2006 Poor Beast in the Rain is Billy Roche’s award-winning second installment of The Wexford Trilogy. It’s the all-Ireland hurling final, and at the local betting shop in Wexford Town, the air is thick with anticipation. Into this palpable excitement comes the infamous “Danger” Doyle, who has returned to his home town for the first time in 10 years, after running off to England with the wife of Stephen, who owns the bookmakers. Having left friends, lovers and a jilted husband behind, Doyle has now returned to help his wife by bringing her daughter Eileen with him back to England. The scandal of Doyle’s departure and subsequent return has forever changed the lives of the other characters, each of whom is connected in some way to the incident.
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