By: Ann Marie Cusella, buffalovibe.com | Posted September 15th, 2018 “For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world yet suffer the loss of his soul?” These biblical words from Mark 8:36, while not spoken in the play, are at the heart of Clifford Odets’ 1937 classic, Golden Boy, a tragic… Read more »
There is a golden girl at the heart of the Irish Classical Theatre production of Clifford Odets 1937 classic, “Golden Boy,” and her name is Cassie Cameron. Cameron gives a five-star performance in this four-star production. It was inevitable that Irish Classical Theatre eventually arrive at the work of Odets. The playwright modeled his plays… Read more »
THE NIGHT ALIVE at Irish Classical Theatre is character driven, and what characters these down at the heels mortals be. by Peter Hall, March 14, 2018, 7:55 am THE BASICS: THE NIGHT ALIVE, a dark comedy by Conor McPherson presented by the Irish Classical Theatre Company, directed by Brian Cavanagh, starring Vincent O’Neill, Brian Mysliwy,… Read more »
by Colin Fleming-Stumpf Published March 6, 2018 The power of a blackbox theatre — particularly a blackbox theatre “in-the-round” (in which the stage is surrounded by seats on all sides) — is the intimacy it creates. If you’ve been to the Irish Classical Theatre before, you’re familiar with the unique experience that is cultivated through… Read more »
Published March 5, 2018 – Unhappiness in rural Dublin– Not an altogether unlikely topic for a play. But when Buffalo’s Irish Classical Theatre included Conor McPherson’s THE NIGHT ALIVE as part of their season of comedies, I wondered how it fit the bill. Happily the play about unhappiness somehow morphs from dark comedy to a… Read more »
by Melinda Miller, Published March 3, 2018 – There is a lot to like about Irish Classical Theatre’s production of “The Night Alive,” Conor McPherson’s dark comedy about a clutch of life’s losers trying to make a go of it in modern-day Dublin. McPherson has a sure hand with dialogue and gift for knowing just… Read more »
