Can the laughter of a child melt the cold heart of a selfish giant? Yes it can! This adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s beautiful fairytale will warm the hearts of young and old alike. See the story unfold through music, dance, storytelling and puppetry. Join us for the pre-show arts workshop where you will meet cast members while learning something special about Irish Culture.

“And after years of the Disney versions on video and on Broadway, anyone else planning a musical adaptation needs nerve as well as creativity - Literally Alive Children’s Theater has both.”
– Laurel Graber, The New York Times

This "Tableau Vivant" features the artist dressed in a large yellow dress, continuously washing her skirt in a bucket of soap water, while a piano piece by Franz Schubert is played intermittently. The work refers to the Irish tradition of Magdalene Laundries, institutions that housed "fallen" women, where they were to give penance for their sins by working in the laundry.

Amanda Coogan's durational performances have been staged internationally at venues such as the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Biennale, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. She lives and works in Dublin.

“Amanda Coogan’s A brick in the Handbag conslidated her position as one of the leading Irish artists across the board.”
- Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times

When Time Becomes Form is an ongoing performance series that explores and questions issues of concentration, will power, and determination, and uses the entire gallery space for up to 8 hours during each day of its presentation.

Saturday, September 6, 8 - 10pm
Panel Discussion as part of When Time Becomes Form
Marina Abramovic, Amanda Coogan, and Chrissie IIes

This solo piece showcases the eye and ear for detail which has brought two-time Tony nominee Conor McPherson acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic. In RUM AND VODKA, a young Irishman loses his job and finds himself on the bender that might finally help him realize what’s important in life.

"Conor McPherson is considered as the finest dramatist of his generation..."
— Ben Brantley, The New York Times

Two-time Tony-Award nominee
Conor McPherson, whose works include
The Seafarer, Shining City, The Weir, Port Authority

What's a young Irish girl do to when she lives in a tiny community, far away from the excitement of America that she desperately craves, not to mention the loveable Warren Beatty? Aside from being kidnapped by space aliens (something she seriously considers), how can Fiona reach the amber waves of grain. An Unmissable night of transatlantic comedy.

"So funny, I cried laughing. It's a love letter to New York !"
– Irish Emigrant

"A vivid memoir -full of wit and openhearted joyfulness"
– Irish Voice

It’s soccer cup final day. Referee Dino Keegan is retiring from the game. At half time the spotlight illuminates Dino’s moment of reckoning. On the field of dreams the referee is God, but what happens when God is made man?

"‘Convincing and memorably skillfull…both a treat and a treasure" – The Irish Times

"An ingenious script..they’ll love it. It’s impossible not to"’ The
– Sunday Times

Born on the same day, in the same ward, Pig and Runt have been inseparable since birth. As their 17th birthday approaches, they embark on a rampage through the nightclubs of ‘Pork City’. Disco Pigs follows the story of these two Cork teenagers, who inhabit a world of their own creation.

A mixture of high energy physicality and lyricism, Disco Pigs is the break-through play by Enda Walsh author of The Walworth Farce

"Walsh is a writer who deserves to be better known in this country"
– Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"Stellar piece of theatre"
– The Washington Post

"Poignantly funny, full of sound and movement, this electric two-hander is phenomenal"
– The Sunday Times (Ireland)

A Panel Discussion of contemporary Irish theatre presented in association with 1st Irish 2008. Moderated by writer/journalist Irish Times Belinda McKeon with participants, Ciarán O’Reilly, Irish Repertory Theater, George C. Heslin, Origin Theatre Company and Professor John P. Waters, NYU.

Glucksman Ireland House is New York University's Center for Irish and Irish-American Studies. It offers graduate and undergraduate programs and a public event series.

www.irelandhouse.as.nyu.edu

It's 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the most devastating famine of the century. While legendary Dublin poet James Clarence Mangan nears the end of his life, blighted by malnourishment and addiction, Cork poet Francis Sylvester Mahony and unhinged American writer, Edgar Allan Poe arrive in Dublin on a mighty poetic pilgrimage.
The three meet one fateful night at The Bleeding Horse on Camden Street. What ensues is an ultra-dark (and totally fictional!) comedy of life, death and alcohol-and-opium fuelled geniuses, set in one of Ireland's most historic public houses!

"A treat for fans of literature, theatre and great story-telling alike - don't miss out. Unfurls with the intensity of a fevered dream…darkly comic and bleakly poignant… a triumph of the word"
— The Sunday Times (Ireland)

Nothing cements a friendship like a common enemy, even if imaginary. In this nimble romp two kids in 1970’s Belfast, smitten with "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" embark on a heroic adventure.

Owen McCafferty is one of the most special voices to come out of Ireland in the last ten years
— The Irish Times

Gary is thirty-five and he has to be home for 9. Darren is twenty-one and he can’t show his face after 10.30. Then there’s the cocaine not to be shoved up your nose, and the promises to be kept to the wife, and most crucially of all– that you’ll never go back to your bad ways which lead to the gates of Cork Prison

"Heylin delivers a finely observed, funny and utterly convincing portrait of crime and its environs"
— The Irish Times

"it is so well written that one can only sit riveted and quietly conclude that there may, after all, be honour among thieves"
— The Irish Examiner

 

Directing the Irish from Page to Stage
a panel discussion with some on New York's finest theatre directors on directing Irish plays for an American audience.