Details
$41.61 (inclusive of fees) and upDate(s)
Jan 7, 2023 – Jan 14, 2023
Contact
Abrons Arts Center
212-598-0400
abrons@henrystreet.org
Location
Playhouse Theater
at Abrons Arts Center
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002
Overview
PROTOTYPE: OPERA | THEATRE | NOW, the annual NYC-based festival of contemporary opera-theatre and music-theatre works, presents a world premiere double bill from the award-winning writer-and-director team behind Conversations After Sex, commissioned and developed by the acclaimed contemporary opera company Beth Morrison Projects. Irish Arts Center is proud to share these exciting productions with our audiences.
TRADE
The story of a rent boy and his closeted client in working-class Dublin, both trapped within their own lives. Meeting secretly in a cheap hotel, they wrestle with their own inner demons and their need for each other. Three-time Tony nominee Marc Kudisch, star of LA Opera’s Wonderful Town and anatomy theater, portrays a family man whose world is crumbling apart, with international recording artist Kyle Bielfield as a young hustler determined to take charge of his future.
Mary Motorhead
A convicted murderer invites us to hear her secret history—the disappointments and betrayals that shaped her life—in the hope that it may shine some light upon the darkness of her actions. Mezzo-soprano Naomi Louisa O’Connell stars as the woman pushed to the edge by circumstance, now finding the road back to herself.
Showtimes
January 7 & 13 | 7:30pm
January 8* & 14 | 4pm
January 10-11 | 7pm
*Includes talkback
Composed by Emma O’Halloran
Libretto by Mark O’Halloran
Directed by Tom Creed
Music direction by Elaine Kelly
Featuring Naomi O'Connell, Marc Kudisch, Kyle Bielfield, and NOVUS NY
Commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects, Irish National Opera, Trinity Church Wall Street, and Nancy & Barry Sanders. Produced by Beth Morrison Projects and Irish National Opera in association with Trinity Church Wall Street. Additional support provided by Virginia B. Toulmin Charitable Foundation, Antonia & Vladimer Kulaev Cultural Heritage Fund, Inc, Elizabeth Greenberg, Culture Ireland, Charlotte Isaacs, and Irish Arts Center.
Our Supporters
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 Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation; the Charina Endowment Fund; the Ireland Funds; the Shubert Foundation, Inc.; the Arnhold Foundation; the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; the Irish Institute of New York; the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, New York; Northern Ireland Bureau; Invest NI; CIE Tours International; the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Consulate of Ireland in New York; and thousands of generous donors like you.
