Irondale Ensemble Project is proud to announce that the new musical London Cries adapted from Henry Mayhew's classic book, London Labour and the London Poor by Di Trevis and Frank McGuinness is the second show in their new Off-Broadway theatre, The Irondale Center. This premiere marks the plays first and last stop before it goes to Kevin Spacey's old Vic in London. Music is by Dominic Muldowney and thirty original songs from the London Music Hall. London Cries is directed by Di Trevis.
In addition to the stellar Irondale ensemble, this production stars the Olivier Award-Winning actress and notable star of stage and screen,
Jenny Galloway, and
Richard Poe who starred in Cry Baby, The Pajama Game, M. Butterfly, Moon Over Buffalo, 1776, et al.
Performances begin November 19th and run through December 20th, running Wednesdays – Saturdays at 8 PM, Saturdays at 2 PM. Tickets are $40/ $15 seniors and students and can be purchased by going to www.ovationtix.com or by calling 212.352.3101. The Irondale Center is easy to get to at the historic Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford St, Bklyn, NY bet. Lafayette and Fulton Street.
London Cries is about the power of music--how music sustains people through hardship. From the crumbling walls and recesses of an old London theatre the ghosts of yesteryear step forth to share with us their lives, their loves and the lilting melodies of a bygone Victorian era.
Drawn from first-hand accounts of the traders and prostitutes, the sewer- men and flower-girls, the criminals and con-men who hacked a precarious living from the streets of the metropolis, LONDON CRIES speaks to us in words and music of the suffering but also the joys of London life as it was really lived.
Director Di Trevis is a world-renowned inter
National Theatre and Opera director, who was the first woman to run a company at the
Royal National Theatre in London. Some of her productions include: Happy End, Taming of the Shrew, Revenger's Tragedy, Much Ado About Nothing, and Elgar's Rondo . For
The National Theatre she did Happy Birthday Brecht, A Matter of Life and Death, The Mother, School For Wives, Yemma, The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, Inadmissable Evidence, and Remembrance of Things Past on which she collaborated with
Harold Pinter and won an Olivier Award.
The Irondale Project, established in 1983, is a theater company that creates and presents original work, through research and exploration of emerging themes in our society. The company has roots in improvisation, traditional Stanislavski techniques, extensive movement work, and collaborative writing techniques. The primary goal of the ensemble is to discover how theater can be utilized as an important or central aspect of daily life. Irondale has approached this mission from two different angles, through an exploration of what types of theater resonate most meaningfully with today's audiences, and through an application of theatrical techniques in non-theater situations (prisons, schools, shelters, etc.). Irondale has produced 42 major Off-Broadway shows including the American premier of Brecht's Conversations In Exile and 16 original pieces. During this time the company has mounted two international and three domestic tours. Irondale is a constituent member of TCG ART New York and a founding member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and many foundations and corporations.
