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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THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (Irish Heritage): Human portraits of a bloody struggle
Dives into the lives of Irish tenement dwellers at the time of the 1916 Easter Rising
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Ireland Rising: Irish Heritage Theatre actors respond to THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS
Nine Irish Heritage Theatre actors talk about the Irish roots of Sean O’Casey’s THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS.
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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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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Mechanical): A rapid-fire current view of Shakespeare’s “merry war”
Shakespeare’s popular romantic comedy is given a new look and a quick pace in Mechanical Theater’s delightful production, performed at Society Hill’s historic Powel House.
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SHADOW OF A GUNMAN (Irish Heritage Theatre): My great-grandfather—the shadow-less gunman
A tragic play gives this Irish American writer a newfound appreciation for his Irish heritage.
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THE SHADOW OF A GUNMAN (IHT): Humor and horror in the Irish homeland
Set during their fight for independence, this controversial two-act tragicomedy merges realism with poetry for an insightful and funny view of the Irish.
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A Day to Play: P&P’s 24-Hour Play Festival
The festival features plays created from scratch in just one day. It won’t be polished, but it should be fun.
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TILL BIRNAM WOOD (John Schultz): Fringe Review 30
One way to focus on the extraordinary eloquence and drama of Shakespeare’s language is to eliminate all visual distraction, and that is precisely what John Schultz has done in TILL BIRNAM WOOD—a rapid-fire 55-minute adaptation of Macbeth that is performed before a blindfolded audience.
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Directing the Future: An Interview with DG Founder Jill Harrison
Since moving to Philadelphia in 2009 (from New York, where she began her career), and joining the Philadelphia theater community as a freelance director, producer,…
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Luna): Commedia dell’arte meets post-modern morality play
Luna Theater Company’s interpretation of Anthony Burgess’s 1962 novel is a unique marriage of the British author’s futuristic stylizations with disturbing a cappella songs with the historic conventions of masking and stock movement inspired by Italian commedia dell’arte. It’s a perfect match to tell the cutting-edge morality tale of teen ultra-violence and reform.
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[65] A MYSTERY? (Dragon’s Eye Theatre): Fringe review
Picture the scene: You are a child under ten years old; you meet three other children, each quite young, Brendan (Patrick Lamborn) is a mandolin prodigy…
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