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As we enter the final weeks of Imagine Ireland, we are delighted to share some of our success stories from recent productions and further highlights awaiting Imagine Ireland audiences this month including works featuring or by Cillian Murphy, John Hurt, Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson.
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John Hurt takes to the stage in Washington DC and New York in the US premiere of the Gate Theatre production of Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Hurt plays a man who on his 69th birthday, while listening to his old recordings, recalls his past loves, disappointments and fascinations and questions whether his present lives up to his past. The Sunday Times said: 'John Hurt's Krapp is the most sympathetic imaginable. This is great acting brought to great art.' Krapp's Last Tape runs at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington from November 29th to December 4th, and at BAM, New York from Dec 6th to 18th. Dublin's Gate Theatre is closely associated with Beckett and earlier in the year received fantastic reviews when it toured Watt and Endgame across four states. Read more about Krapp’s Last Tape here.
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Seeing James X, was suggested as a ‘necessity of life’ by Fintan O’Toole of The Irish Times when it premiered in Dublin in 2009. Written and performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn, and also a US premiere, James X is directed by Gabriel Byrne and produced by Liam Neeson, Culture Project and Farcry Productions, and opens on December 9th in New York’s 45 Bleecker. Gerard Mannix Flynn, a New Independent Dublin City Councillor, is a well-known contemporary commentator, visual artist and playwright. His experience in Irish institutions, including eighteen months in St Joseph’s Industrial School from the age of 11, has informed much of his work including James X. Click here for further details.
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A number of exciting artists exhibit across the US in December including Katie Holten with Streams of Consciousness in Kansas; Death and Sensuality, a group exhibition curated by Jim Ricks in LA until December 3rd; Made-To-Measure by Caroline McCarthy in New York until December 23rd; Ronnie Hughes in LA until December 17th; and Mother’s Tankstation exhibit work by Ian Burns and Kevin Cosgrove at NADA Miami.
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The US premiere of Enda Walsh’s Misterman starring Cillian Murphy will open at St. Ann’s Warehouse (the same venue that premiered Walsh’s The Walworth Farce and Penelope) on December 4th. Following a critically lauded run at the Galway Arts Festival earlier this year, this co-production by Landmark Productions and Galway Arts Festival is a darkly funny and powerful tale that features Cillian Murphy as the zealous Thomas Magill in a performance described by The Guardian as ‘riveting’ and ‘a bravura celebration of [Walsh’s] theatrical vision’. Misterman runs until December 21. Click here for more details.
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