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(Aisling Arts) . . . creates what feels like the theatrical
equivalent of a Robert Altman film—separate but overlapping stories, told
non-linearly and even sometimes in stream-of-consciousness; a puzzle that
approximates real life in that we are always able to make sense of it even
though there are always pieces missing. It's a significant and worthy
accomplishment.” Martin Denton (nytheatre.com) |
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Welcome to our
website. We are pleased to announce
the premiere of our newest play, WAKE, which will open Wednesday October 27 and
run through November 13, 2010. Please visit our Current page for more
information about tickets, dates, times, directions. If your keen on all the
Aisling Arts gossip or would like to know more about the content of the play,
our blog is updated quite frequently and has loads of little treasures for
you!
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ABOUT WAKE: From Ireland to Newfoundland,
from New Bedford to New York, Wake imagines a world where we
are a composite of each other's memories and all the memories that
predate us, our parents' memories and their parents' memories. Through
stories and the act of remembering, WAKE follows three generations of an
Irish American family as the children excavate their parents’ stories and
come to a truer understanding of the family's history. Down on her luck and
uninspired by her own future prospects, Deirdre Sullivan moves into her
family home which has been deserted since her father (esteemed writer, Dan Sullivan)
died nearly two years ago. Hundreds of miles away, Deirdre’s grief-stricken
brother, Kevin, has taken to traveling the world over trying to recreate the
adventures he imagines his father had as a young man. Kevin lands in the
peculiar city of St. John’s, Newfoundland where he vaguely recollects his
family has some history. When he meets
a beguiling young librarian, Molly Cartwright, he begins to unlock the truth
about his family’s connection to the island. Meanwhile, thirty-five years
earlier . . . their father, Dan, is going through a very similar struggle as
he tries to understand his own mother and her life before he was born.
Shattering his sense of identity, she shares with him secrets from her past
so volatile they drive him to write an alternative family history. When a
prominent magazine offers to publish Dan’s story, he must decide what he
values more: his mother’s respect, or the respect of the world at large. |
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