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DRAMA
Thursday 12 to Sat 14 November 2009 at 8pm
The Gigli Concert
Druid Theatre
in association with the Nasc Touring Network
Tickets: Fri & Sat: €22/€18, Friends €15
Tickets available
***Thursday 12 November***Official Opening Anniversary Night *** ALL TICKETS €25 ***
7pm: champagne reception with guest speakers County Manager Michael McLoone and Druid Theatre's artistic director Garry Hynes
8pm: The Gigli Concert
Post-show finger buffet and live music in the foyer from the Triona Sweeney Jazz Trio.
An Grianán Theatre proudly celebrates ten years of bringing the best of local, national and international talent to audiences from Donegal, Tyrone, Derry and further afield with this show which marks the anniversary of our official opening. One of the most popular and successful theatre companies we have received has been Galway's internationally acclaimed Druid Theatre Company.
Above: Peter Sullivan in the Druid production of The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy, directed by Garry Hynes.
Writer Tom Murphy (Bailegangaire, Conversations on a Homecoming) and director Garry Hynes once again join forces to stage what is widely regarded as Murphy’s masterpiece. This searching, challenging and funny play deals with seven days in the relationship between Dynamatologist JPW King, a quack self-help therapist living in Dublin but born and brought up in England, and the mysterious Irishman, a despairing property magnate who seeks out King to help him sing like the great Italian opera singer Beniamino Gigli.
Above: Denis Conway as the mysterious irish Man. The play was a sellout hit at this year's Galway Arts Festival.
A magnificent starburst of language, ideas and stage trickery, The Gigli Concert is one of the most remarkable plays by this great Irish writer and a fitting way to mark our first decade.
Cast: Denis Conway, Peter Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty
Directed by
Garry Hynes
Designed by
Francis O’Connor
Lighting by
Davy Cunningham
Sound by
John Leonard
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"one of the great Irish dramas"
The Irish Times
Above: Denis Conway
"Denis Conway as the Irish Man is extraordinary, by turns menacing and broken, dapper and dishevelled" Irish Independent
"it goes well beyond a self-reflexive exercise, speaking to everyone who has yearned to be more than they are. Here, infinite possibilities are within reach." **** The Guardian
"Druid's beautifully intimate and wonderfully performed revival of The Gigli Concert...a celebration of theatre" Irish Times