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$100.00 All Festival Pass; $55.00 - $65.00 Cycle A or B; $20.00 Readings

About This Show

The Irish Repertory theatre present all 26 plays written by William Butler Yeats performed in repertory. Eight of the plays receive fully mounted productions on the Mainstage of the Theatre whilst the remaining 18 plays receive Concert readings in the downstairs Studio Theatre.

The fully mounted plays in Cycle A on the Mainstage are: The Countess Cathleen, The Cat And The Moon, and On Baile’s Strand.

Mainstage productions in Cycle B are: The Land of Heart’s Desire, The Pot of Broth, Purgatory, A Full Moon In March and Cathleen Ni Houlihan.

The remaining eighteen plays will receive concert readings in the Studio Theatre at The Irish Repertory Theatre. These plays: At the Hawk’s Well, Calvary, Deirdre, The Hour Glass, The King’s Threshold, Oedipus Rex, The Resurrection, The Shadowy Waters, The Words upon the Window Pane, The Green Helmet, The Only Jealousy of Emer, The Unicorn from the Stars, The Player Queen, The Dreaming of the Bones, Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, The King of the Great Clock Tower, The Herne’s Egg, and The Death of Cuchulain, will be directed by George C. Heslin, Artistic Director and Founder of Origin Theatre Company.

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Show Details

Dates: Opening Night: April 15, 2009 Final Performance: May 3, 2009

Theatermania Review

| | April 15, 2009
The Irish Rep’s ambitious mounting of eight one-acts by William Butler Yeats is an irresistible glimpse into the poet-playwright’s determination to tell his country’s myths.