Music

The Whistling Girl

Dublin-based composer and musician Trevor Knight and singer/actor Honor Heffernan's reimagining of the work of Dorothy Parker

Past Event

Details

$28 general ($23 members) / $34 premium ($28 members)

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Date(s)

Fri, Nov 17 - Sat, Nov 18, 2017

8:00pm - 11:30pm

Contact

Box Office
888-616-0274
boxoffice@irishartscenter.org

Phone hours:
10am-6pm, Monday-Friday

In person:
Opens 60 minutes before the performance on show days

Location

Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019

Overview

In association with the Dorothy Parker Society 

Dublin-based composer and musician Trevor Knight and singer/actor Honor Heffernan bring their reimagining of the work of Dorothy Parker to Irish Arts Center this fall.

Embracing dirty-cabaret, electronic-vaudeville, rock, and jazz, Knight’s arrangements lend a vital theatricality to Parker’s sardonic verse. He, Heffernan, and their full band channel the spirit of an American literary icon during Parker's years of notoriety in New York.


“Clever…imaginative. Echoes of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, flourishes of The Doors, a touch of Kraftwerk here, and Leonard Cohen there.” —Hot Press Magazine [Jackie Hayden]

“Parker’s misanthropic verse is phrased in deliciously acidic terms…it’s easy to picture Mrs. Parker viewing this show with both a hiked eyebrow and a wry smile” —The Irish Times


Irish Arts Center programming is supported by Culture Ireland – Promoting Irish Arts Worldwide.

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Featuring

Honor Heffernan
Trevor Knight

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Irish Arts Center programs are supported, in part, by government, foundation, and corporate partners including Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office and the New York City Council; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Howard Gilman Foundation; Tourism Ireland; the Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Brandt Jackson Foundation; the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; the Irish Institute of New York; the Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater; the MacMillan Family Foundation; Bloomberg Philanthropies; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours; M&T Bank; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; the St. Patrick's Day Foundation, NYC; the Hyde and Watson Foundation; the Manhattan Tourism Foundation; and thousands of generous donors like you.

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