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Give Me Your Hand
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 7, 2012
Closed Apr 1, 2012

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http://www.irishrep.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

In Give Me Your Hand, Paul Durcan has taken some of the most famous paintings in the world, and interpreted them with his own unique, poetic voice. Two of Ireland's most eminent actors, Dermot Crowley and Dearbhl Molloy, take an imaginative stroll through the National Gallery and re-discover everyone from Van Gogh and Van Eyck, to Rubens and Gainsborough, through the unique prism of the author's imagination.

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Irish Repertory Theatre
132 W 22nd St
New York, NY 10011


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Give Me Your Hand, now at the Irish Repertory's W. Scott McLucas Studio Theatre under Richard Twyman's bold direction, is by no means a traditional play.

Instead, the 70-minute evening allows two superb Irish actors, Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy, the opportunity to stand at lecterns and animatedly interpret Paul Durcan's poems based on paintings in London's National Gallery. And by the time the pair finishes the unusual work, audiences will have learned something about art, and the two actors will have had a field day doing it.



Although thousands of art lovers gallop through the National Gallery every day, Durcan may be the only one who's ever gazed at its knockout collectio[...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Mar 12, 2012

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