Rough Magic begins a regular series of play readings – some familiar, others new to Irish audiences. These are powerful, thought-provoking plays that moved the dial when they were first staged, challenging ideas and showcasing the power of great dramatic writing. They remind us just how thrilling, limitless, and ambitious theatre writing can be when visionary playwrights and talented performers bring it to life.
GREAT PLAYS
Presented by Rough Magic
27 -29 March
The Flick by Annie Baker
Directed by Dominic O’Brien
Thursday 27 March
The Space Upstairs, 7. 30 pm
🎟️: €15 full price / €12 conc.
In a run-down movie theatre in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. A hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast changing world. Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. THE FLICK is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd on behalf of Samuel French LTD www.concordtheatricals.co.uk.
The Flick – Directed by Dominic O’Brien.
Pentecost by Stewart Parker
Directed by Lynne Parker
Friday 28 March
The Space Upstairs, 7.30 pm
🎟️: €15 full price / €12 conc.
1970s Belfast. In a tiny parlour house four unlikely housemates take refuge from the Loyalist strike against power-sharing in the North. At the centre is the implacable ghost of the woman whose life was contained within its walls. One of the most stimulating, humorous and illuminating plays to chart internal links to the external conflict. Winner of the 1987 Harvey’s Award for Best New Play.
Pentecost – Directed by Lynne Parker.
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Lynne Parker
Saturday 29 March
Space Upstairs, 7.30 pm
🎟️: €15 full price / €12 conc.
Caryl Churchill’s hilarious, groundbreaking, gritty play about the fictional ‘Top Girls’ employment agency, set in the ferocious climate of Thatcher’s Britain, begins with a time-warped luncheon attended by women in legend or history offering their perspectives on legacy, family and the cost of ambition. Winner of the 1983 Obie Award for Best Play.
Top Girls – Directed by Lynne Parker.
Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Dominic O’Brien
Saturday 29 March
The Space Upstairs, 2.30 pm
🎟️: €15 full price / €12 conc.
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their story become higher than ever. Finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gloria is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing Dramatists Play Service Collection (www.dramatists.com).
Gloria – Directed by Dominic O’Brien.
Dates
Thursday 27 - Saturday 29 March
Tickets
€15 full price / €12 conc.
2 events for €25, 3 events for €30 and 4 events for €40.
Space
Space Upstairs
Time
7.30 pm / 2.30 pm
Note
GREAT PLAYS is a series of readings.
Genres
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