The Yeats Project
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Opened Apr 15, 2009
Closed May 3, 2009
Visit the The Yeats Project website:
http://www.irishrep.org
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
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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In our advancing technological age, less of the past is being lost. Want to hear William Butler Yeats recite "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"? Go to Youtube or elsewhere on the Internet. However, if you want to hear the complete plays of Yeats declaimed, then attend The Yeats Project, which the Irish Repertory Theatre and its artistic directors Charlotte Moore and Ciaran O'Reilly have prepared with undaunted ambition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the poet-playwright's death.
True, Yeats' works -- set in bygone (sometimes imaginary) eras as if they're traditional folk tales dramatized -- are now more effective as historical artifacts than as pieces emotionally relevant to a modern [...]