Corrib Theatre Announces 2018-19 Season

For its sixth year of offering plays by contemporary Irish playwrights to Portland audiences, Corrib Theatre announces a three-show season: Hurl by Charlie O'Neill, Four Last Things by Lisa Tierney-Keogh, and How to Keep an Alien by Sonya Kelly. Corrib's play selections feature internationally produced, award-winning Irish playwrights, whose works resonate throughout the world stage. Artistic Director Gemma Whelan will direct Four Last Things and How to Keep an Alien, Tracy Cameron Francis will direct Hurl. The company's 2018-19 productions will be held at New Expressive Works, 810 SE Belmont St., Portland.

"These three plays explore the realities, complexities, and challenges of life in the 21st Century," said Gemma Whelan, Corrib's Founding Artistic Director. "They celebrate the vast diversity that is the new face of Ireland, revel in the differences, and face the underbelly and lack of comprehension that still exists-the clinging to tradition that persists despite enormous progress. In pitting outmoded concepts of the past against the culturally transformed landscape we now inhabit, our season casts a light on life in the U.S. today and in our own city of Portland."

"With New Expressive Works as the new home for Corrib Theatre's 2018-19 season, my vision of a holistic, multicultural and multidisciplinary venue is truly coming to fruition," said Subashini Ganesan, N.E.W. Founder/ED and Portland Creative Laureate. "Corrib joining N.E.W.'s artistic community as the first bona fide theatre season produced in the space is perfect. All of the plays in Corrib's season speak to equity and confront disparities of access and opportunities-the core philosophy that informs the leadership and all programming at N.E.W."

Tickets for all performances are on sale now. General admission tickets are $25, students and group ticket prices are $20. Corrib accepts discounts for Work for Art and Chinook Book, and participates in Arts for All. Tickets are available at Brown Paper Tickets: HERE

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