Dead Centre to Present LIPPY at Abrons Arts Center, 10/15-11/2

Break-through Irish company Dead Centre returns to Abrons Arts Center with a co-production with Irish Arts Center to present their haunting investigation into why we tell stories in the face of tragedy. LIPPY was widely acknowledged as the most extraordinary piece of theatre to emerge from Ireland in 2013. LIPPY premiered in Dublin in 2013 where it was awarded the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Production and in its recent run at The Edinburgh Festival LIPPY was awarded the prestigious Fringe First, Herald Angel and Total Theatre awards. www.deadcentre.org.

Created by Dead Centre, directed by Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel with text contributed by acclaimed Irish playwright Mark O'Halloran and performed by Joanna Banks, Bush Moukarzel, Gina Moxley, Catriona Nu Mhurchu, Liv O'Donoghue, Dan Reardon and Adam Welsh. The creative team also includes set design by Andrew Clancy, lighting design by Stephen Dodd, costume design by Grace O'Hara and music by Adam Welsh.

Performances of Dead Centre's LIPPY will take place October 15-18, 22-25, 29-Nov 1 at 8pm and October 19, 26 & November 2 at 2pm and 7pm. Critics are welcome as of October 16 for an official opening October 19. Tickets are $30 and $24 for Irish Arts Center members and can be purchased by calling 212.352.3101 or visiting www.abronsartscenter.org or irishartscenter.org

Dead Centre was founded in August 2012 by Bush Moukarzel, Ben Kidd, and Adam Welsh. Their first play, Souvenir, written and performed by Moukarzel, premiered to great acclaim in Dublin in September 2012, where it received 4-star reviews from the Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine, and was nominated for three Dublin Fringe Awards. Lippy, Dead Centre's second show, also written by Moukarzel, premiered in Dublin in September 2013. A sell-out run was accompanied by two 5-star reviews. LIPPY then went to the Edinburgh Festival where it won a Fringe First Award, a Herald Angel Award and a Total Theatre nomination.

This production is supported, in part, by Culture Ireland, the agency for the promotion of Irish arts worldwide.