The Irish Repertory Theatre continues its 21st Season With:
ARISTOCRATS by Brian Friel
MIDDEN by Morna Regan • New Works Reading Series
ENTER LAUGHING: The Musical • The York Mega-Hit Returns!
Natalie MacMaster • The Town Hall
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ARISTOCRATS by Brian Friel
ARISTOCRATS
By Brian Friel
January 16th - March 8th
Wed. - Sat. at 8pm
Wed, Sat, Sun. at 3pm
One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Irish theater, master storyteller Brian Friel is at the top of his form with this touching story of a once 
powerful and aristocratic O'Donnell family in its days of decline. Friel examines the Ballybeg "Big House" both in its remembered Heyday and in the era of a heartbreaking social change. The clan gathers for the joys of a wedding but their pasts intrude and truths are revealed in this beautifully tender play by the Tony Award-winning author.
Directed by Charlotte Moore. The cast features Orlagh Cassidy, Rufus Collins, Sean Gormley, Lynn Hawley, John Keating, Laura Odeh, Ciarán O'Reilly, and Geddeth Smith.
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MIDDEN by Morna Regan • New Works Reading Series
NEW WORKS READING SERIES
As part of our mission statement,
The Irish Repertory Theatre "encourages the development of new works focusing on the Irish and Irish-American experience,
as well as a range of other cultures."
Friday, January 30th at 3pm
Midden
by Morna Regan
In Midden, after 15 years in the US, Ruth has finally built up a business successful enough to bring her back home to Ireland. But instead of the welcome she longs for, her arrival provokes instant strife, opening old scars and threatening to drown them all in a sea of resentment and anger. The homesick returning Yank no longer knows where home is. Midden is the story of five women from three generations. Told with humour and warmth it unpicks the tangled threads between past and present, mothers and daughters, exile and home.
Morna Regan (playwright). Morna is a Fulbright Scholar and an MFA graduate from USC, LA. She has worked as an actress for many years performing with such companies as the Abbey, Ireland's National Theatre, Rough Magic and the Gate, Dublin, London's West End, the Kennedy Centre, Washington D.C. and the Long Wharf, Connecticut. Morna's first piece of writing - The Case of Majella McGinty - a 30 minute film - was directed by Academy-Award-nominated Kirsten Sheridan and won twelve international awards including, in the US, a Silver Spire at the San Francisco Film Festival and the Gold Award at the Worldfest in Houston. It also won the Jury Prize at the Cologne Short Film Festival and Morna won Best Actress at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival. Midden was produced by Rough Magic Theatre Company and directed by Lynne Parker and the play was awarded an Edinburgh Fringe First, The Stewart Parker Radio Drama Award, The Jayne Snow Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival, the Heidleburg European Author's Award and was nominated for an Irish Times/ESB Best New Play Award. The show went on to play many venues around Ireland, Traverse One in Edinburgh and the Hampstead Theatre, London. It has also been translated into several different languages and played in numerous venues across Europe to huge critical acclaim. Morna is co-founder of a London based screenwriters' group called CUT2 and is currently finishing her first full length screenplay and has been awarded Writers Only Initiative funding from the Irish Film Board. Recently Morna was very proud to partake in Origin Theatre Company's hugely successful 1rst Irish 2008 End of Lines Festival at the 59E59 Theatre with a one-act called The Housekeeper.
