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MAKING HISTORY (Irish Heritage Theatre): Make Ireland Great Again
Brian Friel the Irish Chekhov.
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MAKING HISTORY (Irish Heritage Theatre): A very human Irish history play
A great play for history buffs and hibernophiles.
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Leading the Blind: Interview with the director and cast of Irish Heritage Theatre’s MOLLY SWEENEY
We presented five questions to IRT’s Peggy Mecham, the director, and the three cast members: Kirsten Quinn as Molly Sweeney, the blind woman; Ethan Lipkin as the husband; and Michael P. Toner as the physician.
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MOLLY SWEENEY (Irish Heritage Theatre): That the blind may see
Turn off your phones, step away from your laptops, and run, don’t walk to the Irish Heritage Theatre’s first ever Barrymore-eligible production.
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Peggy and the PAYCOCK: Interview with Peggy Mecham of Irish Heritage Theatre
Henrik Eger interviews Peggy Mecham about JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK, the second part of playwright Sean O’Casey’s “Dublin Trilogy”.
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JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (IHT): A tragi-comic call for personal responsibility and peace in troubled times
The second installment in playwright Sean O’Casey’s tragi-comic “Dublin Trilogy” traces the misfortunes of a struggling Irish family during the Irish Civil War.
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Theater, dance, and circus for the price of a sandwich: NICE AND FRESH December
This month features circus heroes Almanac, Philadanco alum Lauren Putty White, a short by SmokeyScout artistic director Josh McIlvain, and the return of prodigal playwright John Rosenberg.
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QUILLS (Luna): Sadism never felt so good
This brilliantly twisted, fictionalized look at de Sade’s time in the asylum of Charenton, is now getting a delightfully dark treatment on the new Luna Theater stage.
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Give the rhinos a chance: Interview with the actors of Ionesco’s RHINOCEROS
I asked cast members of the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium (IRC), Philadelphia’s absurdist theatre (since 2006), founded by artistic director Tina Brock, what Ionesco’s RHINOCEROS brought up for them as actors and as people. The range of responses is as astounding as this production. A big thank you to everyone who participated in this Phindie interview.
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RHINOCEROS (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): 2014 Fringe Review 5
Director Tina Brock brings spot-on casting, lightning-quick pacing, and non-stop hysteria (of both the panicked and hilarious varieties) to Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s FringeArts production of Eugène Ionesco’s RHINOCEROS. The devastating consequences of mindless conformity, social apathy, and turning a blind eye to a growing threat are the important themes of the darkly comic Theater of the Absurd masterpiece.
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Foley’s Fringe Binge 2014: 20 Shows in 20 days. Who’s On First?
Theater writer Jessica Foley is seeing 20 Fringe plays in 20 days. Why is she starting with Ionesco’s Rhinoceros?
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Deb Miller’s 15 Top Picks for the 2014 Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Phindie will provide more Philly Fringe Festival coverage than any publication in the world! Coverage begins with 15 picks from star Phindie writer Deb Miller.
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THE DURANG SHABANG! IRC stages night of seldom-seen Durang shorts
The Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium gives local audiences the chance to see Christopher Durang at his comic best in a series of seldom-performed shorts, THE DURANG SHABANG! in two performances (6pm and 8pm) at L’Etage Cabaret, on Sunday, May 18, 2014.
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ONDINE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Nature versus Human Nature
When Hans, a handsome but not-so-smart knight-errant of Wittenstein, meets the unbridled naiad Ondine at a fisherman’s cottage in the woods, they fall recklessly in…
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[14] THE CASTLE (Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium): Fringe review
Though Franz Kafka’s work is not categorized as theater of the absurd per se, his writings have been cited as important predecessors of the genre.…
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