BogBoy Opens At Irish Arts Center Tonight

The Irish Arts Center opens its 2011 Fall season with the US Premiere of Irish playwright Deirde Kinahan's ‘BogBoy', an OFF BROADWAY, Tall Tales Theatre Company & Solstice Arts Centre (both from Navan, Ireland) production that runs at the Irish Arts Center from September 7th as part of the New York City wide 1st Irish Festival and Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland's year of Irish arts in America.

‘BogBoy', a tale of deep friendship, violent murder and unforgivable deceit runs for a limited engagement of 17 performances, beginning Wednesday September 7th through Sunday September 25th. Press performances are Wednesday September 7th, Thursday September 8th and Friday September 9th at 8pm. Play opens Saturday September 10th at 8pm. The performance schedule is Wednesday - Saturday at 8pm; Saturday at 2pm (no 2pm show Saturday September 10th); and Sunday at 3pm. Performances are at the Irish Arts Center's Donaghy Theatre (553 West 51st Street between 10th and 11th Avenues). Tickets are $27 general admission ($23 for IAC members) and are available on irishartscenter.org or by calling 1-866-811-4111 with special 2-4-1 preview tickets are available for any show September 7th-9th.

Written by award-winning playwright Deirdre Kinahan (‘Hue & Cry' [New York Times' Critics Pick]; ‘Moment') who is currently writing a new play for Ireland's Abbey Theatre, and directed by Jo Mangan with design by Ciaran Bagnall, 'Bogboy' interweaves the stories of three people ‘disappeared'** through the cracks of Irish Society: a young boy from Belfast, a struggling Dublin heroin addict and a reclusive local farmer.

Starring Sorcha Fox (‘The Cambria' at Irish Arts Center and on US tour) Steve Blount, Noelle Brown and Emmet Kirwan, ‘BogBoy' is a moving, intriguing and funny new play that the press has called "a powerful piece, well realized and affecting" (Irish Theatre Magazine); "a beautiful fluid production, evocative, moving...stunning...neat and emotionally charged..." (The Irish Times) by a company that is a "fresh and brilliant reminder of different approaches to theatre"(The Scotsman).
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Bogboy' was originally developed by RTE Radio 1 and produced in radio version in 2008 and is co-funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

**The disappeared were a group of civilians kidnapped and murdered in Northern Ireland in the early 1970's.

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Deirdre Kinahan: Deirdre Kinahan's forte as a playwright is to take the big themes and explore them through the most immediately recognisable and empathetic scenarios. Her most recent play ‘Moment', which took on the issue of murder and its effect on a perpetrator's family, played to great acclaim and soldout houses at London's Bush Theatre. Deirdre is artistic director of the company and one of Ireland's most celebrated and prolific new playwrights. Deirdre is a winner of the Tony Doyle Bursary with BBC Northern Ireland 2009. Her play ‘Hue & Cry' played at the Irish Repertory Theatre as part of 1st Irish 2010. She is currently under commission to The Abbey Theatre and is working on her first screenplay with Grand Pictures.
Tall Tales: Tall Tales are Theatre Company in residence at Solstice Arts Centre, Navan from which they produce and tour new plays and provide a programme of professional development for artists in Co. Meath. The company is known in Dublin for their programme of original, artistically exciting and accessible theatre.

Irish Arts Center: founded in 1972, is a New York-based arts and cultural center dedicated to projecting a dynamic image of Ireland and Irish America for the 21st century, building community with artists and audiences of all backgrounds, and preserving the evolving stories and traditions of Irish culture for generations to come. Our multi-disciplinary programming is centred around three core areas: Performance - including live music, dance, theatre, film, literature, and the humanities; Exhibition - including visual arts presentations and cultural exhibitions that tell the evolving Irish story; and Education - with dozens of classes per week in Irish language, history, music, and dance. Located in New York City, a world capital of arts and culture, Irish Arts Center serves as a dynamic platform for top emerging and established artists and cultural creators to reach a New York, national, and global audience, and as a gateway for other institutions to access first-rate Irish and Irish American culture. www.irishartscenter.org

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