Ireland’s history – 7 Different drama theatre plays. Connemara . Guided. 1 hour.

This mobile Irish theatre company performs one of seven ‘plays-for-voices’. The ‘plays for voices’ take a crucial element in Irish history and explore it in depth – bringing history alive. Synge's Aran Islands offers an audience a glimpse of island life. The piece on the Great Famine, Hunger, uses documentary evidence to give audiences a dramatic feel for what has been such a silent and traumatic element in our history. Emigration Road, explores the great wave of emigration from Ireland to the United States. Ferry features five strangers, played by two voices, revealing fragments of their lives now left behind them, forming a collage meditation on life and death, and memory. The Muse & Mister Yeats presents, one by one, the various women with whom W.B. Yeats was romantically involved. With only two actors (playing many voices), a minimum of props, and not much stage “business,” these dramatic pieces explore in an immediate way their chosen subjects - an intensely human sound.