| Estelle Parsons and Mary Beth Peil Cast in Irish Rep's THE DEAD, 1904 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 08:17 pm EDT 09/20/24 | |
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| IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE AND DOT DOT PRODUCTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT ESTELLE PARSONS & MARY BETH PEIL AS KATE AND JULIA MORKAN WILL WELCOME GUESTS BACK TO THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY TOWNHOUSE FOR THE RETURN OF THE DEAD, 1904 BY JAMES JOYCE ADAPTED BY PULITZER PRIZE WINNER PAUL MULDOON AND JEAN HANFF KORELITZ DIRECTED BY CIARÁN O'REILLY PREVIEWS BEGIN NOVEMBER 20, 2024 OPENING NIGHT SET FOR NOVEMBER 26, 2024 LIMITED RUN THROUGH JANUARY 5, 2025 FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT IRISHREP.ORG (September 19, 2024 – New York, NY) Irish Repertory Theatre (Charlotte Moore, Artistic Director and Ciarán O'Reilly, Producing Director) and Dot Dot Productions (Nina Korelitz Matza and Jean Hanff Korelitz), in association with The American Irish Historical Society are pleased to announce that Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons and Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee Mary Beth Peil will welcome guests back to The American Irish Historical Society (991 Fifth Avenue) townhouse as "Kate and Julia Morkan," respectively, for the long-awaited return of The Dead, 1904 - an immersive adaptation of James Joyce's classic story, "The Dead." Adapted by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon (Joy in Service on Rue Tagore) and novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Plot, The Latecomer, HBO's "The Undoing"), and directed by Irish Rep co-founder Ciarán O'Reilly (Philadelphia, Here I Come!), The Dead, 1904 begins previews November 20, 2024, with an opening night set for November 26, for a limited run through January 5, 2025. The full cast & creative team for The Dead, 1904 will be announced at a later date. Tickets to The Dead, 1904 include dinner and drinks. Four VIP premium tickets will be available at each performance, allowing audience members to be served dinner at the main table with the cast as they play the dinner scene-–a once in a lifetime experience for lovers of immersive theatre and James Joyce. Tickets are on sale now for members and are available at IrishRep.org. Tickets will go on sale to the public beginning September 19. The Dead, 1904 is also available for group bookings. James Joyce's novella, "The Dead," describes a holiday gathering on January 6, 1904, the Feast of the Epiphany, in the Dublin home of two elderly sisters, Kate and Julia Morkan, and their niece, Mary Jane. At the party are students, friends, a celebrated tenor, a lost alcoholic, and the couple, Gabriel and Gretta Conroy. Over the course of an evening, there are conversations, music, dancing, and dining. There are speeches and disagreements – polite and impolite – and when it is all over Gabriel learns something about his wife that changes his sense of who she is and who they are to each other, of what it actually means to be alive, and to be dead. This exquisite recreation of James Joyce's haunting story was the most sought-after theatrical event of New York's 2016-2018 holiday seasons. We relish the opportunity to welcome you again, or for the first time. The Dead, 1904 is staged in the c. 1900 townhouse of The American Irish Historical Society (991 Fifth Avenue, New York) on the Upper East Side for an audience of just 48 people per night. The production travels over three floors of the building, which has been restored to period decoration. Rooms used include the lobby, parlor, dining room and upstairs library. A holiday meal, inspired by descriptions of the feast in Joyce's story, has been created by Great Performances, one of the city's most celebrated caterers, to be served to cast and audience alike in the townhouse's elegant dining room. Wine, stout, and spirits will be served with the meal. The menu for The Dead, 1904, prepared on-site daily for each show by Great Performances, features: Roast Turkey Breast Stuffed with Sprigs of Parsley & Herbs; Beef Tenderloin with Fig & Cocoa Glaze; Mashed "Floury" Potatoes; Cranberry & Pineapple Relish; Dried Figs; Artisanal Raisins served on the vine & Smoked Almonds; and Bread & Butter Pudding with Vanilla Custard. The performance schedule for The Dead, 1904 will be as follows: Tuesdays through Fridays at 7PM, and Saturdays & Sundays at 5PM & 8:30PM. Exceptions: There will be no performance on Thursday November 28, Tuesday December 24, Wednesday December 25, and Wednesday January 1. There will be additional performances on Monday December 23 and Monday December 30 at 7PM. IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE, co-founded by Producing Director Ciarán O'Reilly and Artistic Director Charlotte Moore, is now in its 36th season after first opening its doors in September 1988 with Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars. Irish Rep is currently the only year-round theatre company in New York City devoted to bringing Irish and Irish American works to the stage. Recognized with the Jujamcyn Theatres Award, a special Drama Desk Award for "Excellence in Presenting Distinguished Irish Drama," an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Achievement, and the Lucille Lortel Award for "Outstanding Body of Work," Irish Rep celebrates the very best in Irish theatre, from the masters to the new generation of Irish and Irish American writers who are transforming the stage. Nearly 50,000 audience members annually attend productions at Irish Rep's theatre located in the heart of New York's Off-Broadway community. Once here, they witness Irish Rep's engaging perspective on the Irish and their unique contributions to the world of drama. DOT DOT PRODUCTIONS was created to bring The Dead, 1904 to life in New York City. The vision of Jean Hanff Korelitz and Nina Korelitz Matza, two theater-loving sisters and native New Yorkers with backgrounds in literature and marketing, Dot Dot plans to produce many more innovative theater projects. PAUL MULDOON AND JEAN HANFF KORELITZ (Adapters). The Dead, 1904 is the first collaboration for The Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon (Joy in Service on Rue Tagore) and novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Plot, The Latecomer, HBO's "The Undoing"), who are married. (PaulMuldoonpoetry.com, jeanhanffkorelitz.com) CIARÁN O'REILLY (Director). Favorite directing credits include Philadelphia, Here I Come! (as part of Irish Rep's 35th season-long celebration, The Friel Project; Lortel, Drama Desk, and OCC Award nominations); Love Letters; Endgame (Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Play Revival; OCC, Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations); The Butcher Boy; A Touch of the Poet; Autumn Royal; A Touch Of the Poet*, The Weir* (*Performance on Screen); Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of Lady Gregory; Dublin Carol; The Shadow of a Gunman; The Seafarer; Shining City; Off the Meter, On the Record; The Weir (Callaway nomination); Banished Children of Eve; The Emperor Jones (Callaway and O'Neill Credo Awards; Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Award nominations); The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk, Drama League and Callaway Award nominations) THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY is an international center of scholarship, education, and cultural enrichment dedicated to promoting the significant, ongoing contributions to the United States of America made by Irish immigrants and their descendants. www.aihsny.org GREAT PERFORMANCES, one of the city's most celebrated caterers, maintains restaurants at some of the city's preeminent cultural institutions, including Jazz at Lincoln Center, Asia Society Museum, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Brooklyn Museum. www.greatperformances.com FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT IrishRep.org # # # ESTELLE PARSONS (Kate Morkan) is most widely known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Bonnie and Clyde and her ten years as ‘Mother Bev' on the hit ABC sitcom "Roseanne" which can be seen reprising on "The Connors." Ms. Parsons, a theatre legend, traveled the world performing Roberto Athayde's classic, Miss Margarida's Way. On Broadway she starred in Miss Margarida's Way, August: Osage County, Good People, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Mornings at Seven, The Shadow Box and most recently was Tony Award nominated as Best Actress in a Play for her work as Alexandra in The Velocity of Autumn. Off-Broadway she most recently appeared in Unknown Solider at Playwrights Horizons and A Bright Room Called Day at the Public Theatre for which she was nominated for a Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. As a director, Ms. Parsons directed Al Pacino on Broadway in Oscar Wilde's Salome: The Reading. Her Broadway directing credits also include As You Like It, Macbeth and Romeo and Juillet. Her television credits include "Grace & Frankie," "The Good Wife," "Empire Falls," "Frasier," "Law & Order: SVU," "Backstairs at the White House" and "All in the Family." Ms. Parsons' film career spans 50 years and includes Rachel, Rachel (Academy Award nomination), Don't Drink the Water, I Walk the Line, For Pete's Sake, Foreplay, The Lemon Sisters, The Blue Men, Dick Tracey, Boys on the Side, Looking for Richard and That Darn Cat. Estelle was seen in the independent film Diane which was distributed by IFC. Parsons is a longtime member of the Actors Studio and was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004. MARY BETH PEIL (Julia Morkan) can most recently seen in Netflix's "Halston" opposite Ewan McGregor. Prior to that she was seen in a major recurring role in The CW's "Katy Keene" as well as "The Village" for NBC. Other TV credits include "The Good Wife," "Law & Order: SVU," and "The Fringe." Film credits include The Song of Sway Lake, Here and Now, Collateral Beauty, Mirrors, The List, Flags of Our Fathers, Stepford Wives, and The Odd Couple II. Peil will next be seen in the independent feature Phyllis, Silenced and Miramax's The Home which will be released in 2024. In addition to her work on screen, Mary Beth is very well known in the theater world. In 2017, she was nominated for a Tony, Drama Desk, & Outer Critics Award for Anastasia. Additional Broadway credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses; The Visit; Follies; Women on the Verge…; Sunday in the Park with George; Nine; and the 1985 production of The King and I for which she received her first Tony nomination. Most recently, she was in Classic Stage Company's off-Broadway productions of A Man of No Importance and Macbeth. |
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