THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET Comes To 59E59 Theaters, Previews 9/1

59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer) welcomes Fishamble: The New Play Company to 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters with their critically acclaimed production of THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET, written by internationally celebrated author Sebastian Barry and directed by Jim Culleton. THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET begins previews on Tuesday, September 1 for a limited engagement through Sunday, October 4. Opening Night is Tuesday, September 8 at 7:15 PM. The performance schedule is Tuesday at 7:15 PM, Wednesday - Friday at 8:15 PM, Saturday at 2:15 PM and 8:15 PM and Sunday at 3:15 PM and 7:15 PM. Tickets are $35($24.50 for 59E59 Members). Tickets are available by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.ticketcentral.com. For more information visit www.59E59.org.

Italy 1-Ireland 0... The score that marked Ireland's demoralizing exit from the World Cup Italia 1990 took its toll. No more so than on Janet and Joe Brady of Parnell Street, who lost far more than the match that night. Some years on, they reveal the intimacies of their love and the rupture of their marriage as well as their enduring love affair with Dublin city itself. THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET is an intimate, heroic tale of ordinary and extraordinary life on the streets of Dublin. Fishamble's world premiere of THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET opened at the Tricycle Theatre in London and as part of the Dublin Festival at the Tivoli Theatre in 2007. The production makes its NYC premiere at 1st Irish at 59E59 Theaters after successful tours through Ireland, France, Germany and at the Arts & Ideas Festival in New Haven, CT. Critics have praised the production as "simply magnificent" (Sunday Independent) and "a masterpiece" (Sunday Tribune). THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET stars AiDan Kelly (Mark O'Rowe's Terminus at the Public and Howie the Rookie at PS122) as Joe and Mary Murray(The Alice Trilogy at The Abbey Theatre, Irish Times Best Supporting Actress Award)as Janet.

Sebastian Barry (playwright) is a major, internationally-renowned playwright and novelist. He was born in Dublin in 1955 and educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was a Writer Fellow 1996. He was also Writer in Association at The Abbey Theatre in 1990, and recently held the Heimbold Visiting Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University in the USA. His ten plays include Boss Grady's Boys (Abbey 1988), The Steward of Christendom (1995, which played London and New York and toured internationally with Out-of-Joint Theatre Company) and Our Lady of Sligo (1998, London, Dublin and New York, Out-of-Joint). His theater awards include the BBC/Stewart Parker Award (1989), the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the Ireland/America Literary Prize, the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play, the Writers' Guild Award, the Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year Award and the Peggy Ramsay Play Award (jointly), as well as a nomination for the Olivier Award. Sebastian has also published several works of poetry and fiction, including the novels The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty (Picador 1998), Annie Dunne (Faber and Faber 2002) and A Long Long Way (Faber and Faber 2005), which was short listed for the Booker Prize 2005 and the International Dublin Impac Prize, and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. His new novel The Secret Scripture was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the Costa Book of the Year, the Hughes and Hughes Irish Novel of the Year, the Tubridy Listeners' Choice Award, and was shortlisted for seven other awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award. It is translated into twenty-seven languages. The Pride of Parnell Street was nominated for an Irish Times Irish Theatre Award for Best Play. Dallas Sweetman, a commission from Paines Plough and Canterbury Cathedral, played in The cathedral nave last year. He has two plays pending, Tales of Ballycumber for The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and Andersen's English for Out-of-Joint Theatre Company in London.

Jim Culleton (director) is the Artistic Director of Fishamble: The New Play Company, for which he most recently directed Forgotten by Pat Kinevane (Irish tour, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Sibiu, Prague, Paris, Reykjavik), Handel's Crossing by Joseph O'Connor (Dublin Handel Festival), Rank by Robert Massey (Dublin Theatre Festival and Tricycle, London), The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry (Irish tour, London, France, Germany, US), Noah and the Tower Flower by Sean McLoughlin (Ballymun, Bulgaria and Romania, Irish Times Award and Stewart Parker Trust Award winner), Monged by Gary Duggan (Irish and UK tour, Stewart Parker Trust Award winner), and site-specific plays for Whereabouts (Irish Times Award winner). His productions have won or been nominated for awards, including Irish Times Theatre Awards, Entertainment & Media Awards, In Dublin Theatre Awards, MAMCA Awards, TMA Awards and Allianz/Business to Arts Awards. He has edited and contributed to books for New Island, Carysfort Press, Ubu, Amnesty International, European Theatre Convention and NCI. He has directed readings of new Irish plays for Origin (New York) and The Pride of Parnell Street at the Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven.

THE PRIDE OF PARNELL STREET and Fishamble: The New Play Company is funded by The Arts Council and Culture Ireland.

 

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