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Riverside Youth Theatre Auditions





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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 - This might be the Idiot’s Guide to Irish Writers.



A one-man stand-up comedy performance full of wit and words on Friday 26 February, 8pm.

Out in front come Oscar Wilde's hilarious creations such as Lady Bracknell from his most famous play "The Importance of Being Earnest," or Oscar himself in his description of his trip to America, or Jonathan Swift's (the author of "Gulliver's Travels," famous satirist and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin) "Resolutions When I Come to Be Old" in which, in 1699, Jonathan makes a rather comical list of New Year’s type resolutions for his future.

Next in line is Percy French's hilarious parody of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Lord Essex (who she sends to Ireland to control the troublesome Irish), and Oliver Goldsmith's humorous moral tale 'An Elegy Written on the Death of a Mad Dog' from "The Vicar of Wakefield".

Then there is George Bernard Shaw's view of the Irish character and the Irish imagination as outlined by his character Doyle in the play "John Bull’s Other Island".

A few gems of poetry by two of Ireland's most renowned poets William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney, (both of whom won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Yeats in 1923 and Heaney in 1995). Followed by an extract from each of "Shadow of a Gunman" by Sean O’Casey , "The Playboy of the Western World" by J.M.Synge, and "Down All the Days" by Christy Browne.

Neil O’Shea from the Irish Actors Theatre Company pays tribute to the extraordinary wealth of literature in English that has come out of Ireland.

Tickets £10 available online at www.riversidetheatre.org.uk or from the Box Office on Tel. 028 7032 3232
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