Name: The Wake 2024
Start: 2024-08-09T19:00:00
Location: The Banshee Irish Pub

Irish Classical Theatre Company

Searching for light, but kept in the dark. 

Unnerving, entertaining, funny and dark, Wedekind’s definitive play about youth caused riots when it exploded onto the stage in 1906 and has lost none of its provocative power. Powerfully updated by award-winning playwright Anya Reiss, this new version examines the exuberance, intensity and confusion of teenage life today. Spring Awakening shatters the silence about how young people are shaped for their future by a generation that doesn’t understand them.

Spring Awakening

A house full of secrets, and an inescapable legacy. Ibsen’s Ghosts returns in a fierce, contemporary adaptation about truth, inheritance, and the cost of silence, set in 1980s Ireland.

Every family has ghosts. 

In this powerful adaptation of Ghosts (1881), Thomas Kilroy reimagines Henrik Ibsen’s groundbreaking drama as a haunting excavation of family, legacy, and the devastating cost of silence. As a widow prepares to consecrate the memory of her late husband, their carefully constructed story of a respectable life begins to fracture. Long-buried truths surface, revealing how a father’s struggles are visited upon his children in a family terrified of the ghosts that surround them. In this searing portrait of moral reckoning, the forces of past and present collide, probing the fragile boundary between private truth and public reputation, between the authority of religion and the realities of human desire. 

Ghosts

As the world approaches its final hour, a couple married for nearly four decades must confront the truths and lies of a lifetime together.

What’s left to say at the end?

Set in Ireland in 2048, Denouement by John Morton unfolds in the final hour before the world ends. Edel and Liam have been married for 37 years and now live alone in a remote farmhouse at the foot of a mountain. With their children long gone and time running out, they spend their last moments saying goodbye to old friends, former lovers, and to the lives they once imagined. As memories surface and old grievances return, love, resentment, humor, and tenderness collide in a darkly funny, deeply human portrait of a marriage facing its ultimate ending.

Denouement

Beer, wine, food, and shenanigans will be in abundant supply as ICTC takes over The Banshee Irish Pub for a rollicking Wake, Irish-style.