Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival Mix Tix Now On Sale

Take a wander through Irish theatre this season! Ireland's bustling towns and wistful countrysides provide backdrops for eight plays filled with humor, melancholy, and bittersweet storytelling.

During the Philadelphia Irish Theatre Festival, six Philadelphia-area theatre companies are presenting eight works by Irish playwrights between December 2010 and May 2011.

With an Irish Theatre MixTix, purchase two or more shows for a 20% discount on all of your tickets! This offer is available only at mixtix.phillytheatretix.com. Read on to learn more about these productions.
Amaryllis Theatre Company
Dublin Carol
By Conor McPherson
December 7-19, 2010
*FIRST PERFORMANCE TONIGHT!*
John, a man whose life was nearly destroyed by drinking, now holds down a steady job at a Dublin undertaker's office. When his estranged daughter appears on Christmas Eve with disturbing news, it sets off a series of painful confessions that ultimately offer John a chance to escape the burdens of his past.

Inis Nua Theatre Company
Pumpgirl
By Abbie Spallen
January 11-23, 2011
In this gripping play from one of Ireland's brightest new talents, playwright Abbie Spallen shapes a startling tale of three lives colliding in rural Ireland. The play unfolds with the story of a homely, tomboyish pump girl at a rundown gas station. When a local racetrack star becomes the focus of her obsession, the affair threatens more than the feelings of his disenchanted wife. A blazing success in Edinburgh, 2006 and at London's renowned Bush Theatre, the play is in the best tradition of richly detailed and unforgettable Irish storytelling.

Lantern Theater Company
A Skull in Connemara
By Martin McDonagh
January 13 - February 6, 2011
Leenane is a small Irish town with a small Catholic cemetery - too small. Widower Mick Dowd is hired each fall to disinter old bones to make room for the freshly departed, and this year's crop threatens to bring to the surface the long hidden secrets of the living. Irish writer Martin McDonagh is the mind behind this raucous, wonderfully unsettling comedy about death and dirt.

Annenberg Center
Terminus
By Mark O'Rowe
February 16-20, 2011
Hold tight as the ordinary turns extraordinary! Catapult from the bustling streets to the skies above Dublin, then plummet deep to the bowels of the earth as three people are ripped from their daily lives and thrown into a fantastical world featuring a lonely young woman looking for love, a mother seeking atonement and a serial killer who has sold his soul to the Devil, resulting in an audacious drama of interlocking monologues.

Theatre Exile
The Lieutenant of Inishmore
By Martin McDonagh
February 17 - March 13, 2011
Meet Mad Padriac, the most lethal soldier of the Irish National Liberation Party. When Padriac is called home to his small town of Inishmore to find that his only true friend, Wee Thomas the cat, has been assassinated there will be blood.

Act II Playhouse
The Pride of Parnell Street
By Sebastian Barry
March 22 - April 17, 2011
*American Premiere*
Italy 1 - Ireland 0...The score that marked Ireland's demoralizing exit from the 1990 World Cup took its toll on many Dubliners - especially Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street, who lost far more than the match that night. In two poignant, interweaving monologues, Janet and Joe reveal the intimacies of their love and the rupture of their marriage as well as their affection for Ireland's most famous city.

Inis Nua Theatre Company
Dublin by Lamplight
By Michael West
April 26 - May 14, 2011
*American Premiere*
Amidst the filth and fury of Dublin 1904, the theatrical event of the century is about to explode. Will the Irish National Theatre of Ireland seize its chance for glory? Fading stars, rebels, whores, and romantics irreverently expose the strange and lurid world of Dublin by Lamplight.

Annenberg Center
The Cripple of Inishmaan
By Martin McDonagh
May 19-22, 2011
*Philadelphia Premiere*
It's 1934 and news on the island of Inishmaan is "thin on the ground." Then word arrives that they're making a Hollywood film on neighboring Inishmore and Cripple Billy for once is paying attention. So begins this comic masterpiece by master storyteller Martin McDonagh about a Hollywood fever epidemic and eccentric island characters in rural Ireland that will seduce theatre lovers of all types with humor, wit and hearthside warmth.

 

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