Belles of Dublin

Belles of Dublin, starring Polly MacIntyre, Kim Robson, and Evangeline Williams interlaces stories of coming of age and illicit love affairs gone wrong with traditional Irish music featuring vocals, flute, and Celtic harp.

This marks the 4th production of Belles of Dublin since its Red Room premiere in 2006.  Audiences have found its unique blend of Irish theatre and music to be the perfect way to ring in St. Patrick's Day weekend.

Critical response has concurred!


The Irish Edition called Belles of Dublin a “beautiful sequenced show” performed by a “talented trio”,  which “under MacIntyre’s direction worked splendidly” and was “warmly received by a festive audience” at its revival in The Red Room at Society Hill Playhouse in 2007 after premiering in 2006.  


According to Tim Treanor of DC Theatre Scene, “The stories are carved and scoured with language like a cascade of diamonds. It is not simply MacIntyre’s brogue which identifies the pieces as Irish. They radiate the sort of liquid cynicism which has marked the Irish literary voice from Swift through Frank McCourt. The protagonist tells her story from the point of view of love, and the opportunity for love, long past. This could be depressing, but MacIntyre makes it sound rueful, wistful, and, with surprising frequency, funny. That’s in large part because she excerpts her content from the writing of the fine, if underappreciated, Irish writer Edna O’ Brien. I do not know what O’Brien would sound like reading her stories, but if she doesn’t sound like MacIntyre, I bet she wishes she did.”

Performances:

Wednesday, March 17 2010 at 8:00 pm

Thursday, March 18 2010 at 8:00 pm

Friday, March 19 2010 8:00 pm

Saturday, March 20 2010 at 8:00 pm

Sunday, March 21 2010 at 3:00 pm

Admission: $20 (includes 1 drink)

Reservations: (215) 923-0210

March 2010

Funded in part by
The Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Program
as administered by 1812

World Premiere:

Straw Flower Productions presents
American Mud

Written and performed by Jackie Ruggiero Jacobson
Directed by Neill Hartley
With Gerre Garrett as Susan B. Anthony

A political fable about the world’s first cloned woman to run for president in 2012.

Bred in a Petri dish…Raised in a walk in closet by the ghost of Susan B. Anthony…Genetically engineered to possess intelligence, ambition, lethal sex appeal and the skin of a rhino, Adamaris, the world’s first cloned woman is making history. She’s running for president in the year 2012.

Charlotte, a young law student from Illinois, trails her campaign. Longing to be a part of Adamaris’ historic victory she puts her own life on hold and launches a bohemian bus tour in support of her candidate. She’s sure that Adamaris, a crossbreed of pant suit power and Victoria Secret’s feminine mystique, is just the recipe for an implosion of the land’s highest glass ceiling. But when Charlotte takes her case to the bus stops of America, she finds herself neck deep in centuries’ old mud. Change is sinking, along with her heroine’s celebrity status. It’ll take superhuman strength to save them both for posterity.
 

April 22-May 9 (THU, FRI, SAT @ 8PM SUN @ 6PM)

Tickets: $21-$25 (includes 1 FREE Drink)

Special Performance Wednesday May 5th @ 8PM

Reservations:

215.923.0210