(Photo by Catherine Ashmore)
This just in! Critics have been wowed by the recent DruidMurphy performances - Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark and Famine - which began last Thursday at Lincoln Center Festival and run through this Saturday, July 14. See what all the buzz is about below…
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On Sunday, July 8 starting at 1pm, devotees of Irish playwright Tom Murphy’s work can witness the full breadth of the DruidMurphy project with back-to-back performances of all three plays: Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark, and Famine. Before heading in to see the Druid Theatre Company, check out this article by The Irish Times, which looks at the inspiration behind Murphy’s plays. The full cycle of plays will be repeated on Saturday, July 14.
Click on the link above to see Time Out New York’s hub for all things Lincoln Center Festival 2012, which opens tonight!
Actors Marty Rea, Aaron Monaghan, Garrett Lombard and Rory Nolan (L-R) take the stage tonight for Conversations on a Homecoming, the first of the three plays written by Tom Murphy (far left) and directed by Garry Hynes (far right) that make up Druid Theatre Company’s DruidMurphy. All four actors are also performing in A Whistle in the Dark and Famine.
Find out about all three plays of the DruidMurphy project - Famine, Conversations on a Homecoming and A Whistle in the Dark - in this video interview with director Garry Hynes. DruidMurphy comes to Lincoln Center Festival tonight in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
Director Garry Hynes talks about the renowned playwright Tom Murphy, whose highly anticipated DruidMurphy plays come to Lincoln Center Festival tomorrow, in the video above. Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming will performed at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College through July 14.
In the video above, director Garry Hynes gives an overview of the DruidMurphy performances - Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming - which begin this Thursday at Lincoln Center Festival.
Druid Theatre Company actor Garrett Lombard (second from left) is going to have a busy summer performing key roles in all three of Tom Murphy’s plays that make up DruidMurphy, coming to Lincoln Center Festival July 5-14, 2012.
“There’s a great senses of excitement,” he says. “Everyone understands how important Tom Murphy is to Irish theatre so to be asked to be involved in this project that will be bringing Tom’s work around the world is a fantastic honour and we all understand the importance of the project we’re involved in. There’s a great sense of camaraderie and teamwork as a lot of us are in all three plays.” Read more of the Galway Advertiser’s interview with Lombard by clicking the link above.
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“Through her unflinching productions of plays by Martin McDonagh and others, the director Garry Hynes bears as much responsibility as anyone for resetting the popular conception of Irish theater,” wrote The New York Times’ Eric Grode in his recent review of the DruidMurphy performances. “The county names are just as mellifluous as before, but the plays now contain torturers and sociopaths.”
Tom Murphy’s spectacular DruidMurphy plays — Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark and Famine — come to Lincoln Center Festival on July 5 through 14.
Rave reviews for DruidMurphy are coming in fast and furious. Click here for the Independent’s review by Sophie Gurman, who called the production “a remarkable theatrical achievement in scope, vision, and execution.” And it opens at Lincoln Center Festival next week on July 5!
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