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Tickets: €27.50 – 32.50 120 minutesDate(s)
Jun 25, 2021 – Jun 27, 2021
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Overview
Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman
in association with Pavilion Theatre and Cork Midsummer Festival present
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE
by Virginia Woolf
Adapted by Marina Carr
Directed by Annabelle Comyn
Irish Arts Center is proud to announce that we are partnering with Cork Midsummer Festival and The Everyman to be an international presenter of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, a major stage adaptation of the modernist icon's masterpiece.
Brought vividly to life by two of Ireland's foremost theatre makers, the award-winning playwright Marina Carr and director Annabelle Comyn, and featuring Olwen Fouéré, Derbhle Crotty, Nick Dunning, and Declan Conlon among its cast, this world premiere production will be filmed in the Everyman theatre and broadcast as part of the 2021 Festival.
Friday, June 25, 2:30pm ET — Sunday, June 27, midnight
On demand video stream
€27.50 | €32.50
In Conversation: A Talkback with Marina Carr and Catherine Hollis
As part of the premiere weekend, Irish Arts Center will host a free talkback with Marina Carr, moderated by Virginia Woolf scholar and UC Berkeley professor Catherine W. Hollis, on Carr’s adaptation of To the Lighthouse and Virginia Woolf’s world.
Saturday, June 26, 1pm ET (6pm IST)
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To the Lighthouse
"But what have I done with my life? Only this? An infinitely long table, plates, knives. And at the far end, you, my husband, sitting in a heap. Frowning."
The play opens on the Ramsay family's carefree days spent with friends by the sea. Children play, Mr. Carmichael reclines with handkerchief over his face, Lily paints her picture, and six year old James wants to sail to the lighthouse. Life is sweet.
But what appears tranquil on the surface masks deep currents of longing and frustration that the characters struggle to contain.
With the promise of a trip to the lighthouse cancelled, tensions in the home, and beyond, rupture violently and fling these lives into turmoil. The world is in transition and death becomes a footnote to a seismic global change; those who remain try to cope in a new era and with the loss that it brings.
All-star cast includes Maura Bird, Gillian Buckle, Colin Campbell, Declan Conlon, Derbhle Crotty, Aoife Duffin, Nick Dunning, Kwaku Fortune, Olwen Fouéré, and Kyle Hixon.
First commissioned by Hatch Theatre Company in association with Project Arts Centre, and core-funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.
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