Inis Nua Theatre Company

at 1636 Sansom St, Philadelphia , 19103 United States

1. Theatre
2. Local Business

Philadelphia, Pa-based theatre company dedicated to producing contemporary work from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England

Description

CIRPÍNI. It’s the Irish word for tindersticks. “ar cirpíni” means you’re on tindersticks. It’s a phrase that means you’re excited. Anxious. Waiting for something to happen. INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY. Keeping you on tindersticks. And this is Inis Nua Theatre. GRÍOSAITHEACH. It’s the Irish word for provocative, rousing. Racy. A raised skirt or a gun pulled and pointed. It’s the word that describes your blood picking up pace. A finger on your pulse. INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY. Keeping your blood racing. And this…is Inis Nua Theatre. CRAIC. Pronounced like “crack.” It’s the Irish word for fun or good time. It’s laughter and mingling. A good chin wag or a good story. “What’s the craic?” means what’s going on? Where’s the party at? INIS NUA THEATRE COMPANY. The place for some good craic.

General Info

Past Productions 2004 - A Play on Two Chairs by Michael WestStarring: Patrick Doran, Erin Reilly Directed by: Tom ReingTwo actors. Two chairs. Two sexes. Irish playwright Micheal West explores the passive, aggressive, primal, and cerebral impulses of a man and woman. A stylized blend of movement and lucid stage visuals, this provacitive, funny, disturbing play premired from Inis Nua Theatre Company in the 2004 Fringe Festival. 2005 - Tadhg Stray Wandered In by Michael Collins Tadhg doesn't like when people laugh at him. He sometimes has a terrible temper. And he never knows when to leave a party. Tadhg Stray is an impulsive young man trying to find love on the streets of a small Irish town and ends up in the big city of Paris! All this -- and he has school exams to finish! 2006 - Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco by Gary OwensStarring: Mike Dees, Jared Delaney, Charlie DelMarcelle Directed by: Tom ReingSaturday night, small-town Wales, one pub, one party and three lads stuck with their school reputations - the gimp, the geek and the bully. Their dream - to get the hell out. With a soupçon of mindless violence and the perfect girl to die for, "Crazy Gary's Mobile Disco" bristles with the desperately ordinary, the truly extraordinary and the just plain mad. 2007 - Trad by Mark DohertyStarring: Mike Dees, Jared Delaney, Charlie DelMarcelle Directed by: Tom ReingAn Irish fable about tradition in a mad place, Trad is the hilarious tale of hundred year old Thomas and his improbably old, ancient Da. When Thomas reveals that he once fathered a son in a long ago fling, the pair set off across the Irish countryside to find the unknown child, with nothing more than a hobble and a limp to help them. 2009 - SKIN DEEP by Paul MeadeStarring: Jared Delaney, Charlie DelMarcelle, Corinna Burns, Melissa Lynch Directed by: Tom ReingSkin Deep is a thriller set in the Dublin art world. Inspired by artists like Damien Hirst and the new greed of Dublin. Karl, a struggling artist, owes money to his landlord, a photographer called Dan. Karl is stuck for inspiration, whenone day he hits upon an idea, involving a huge favor from Susan, a medical student moonlighting in a hospital morgue. Dan's girlfriend Ruth writes a weekly column on her love-life. As Karl's new work elevates him to celebrity status, Ruth becomes suspicious of the secrets to his success. All this...and a mysterious foot! 2009 - Made in China by Mark O'RoweStarring: Mike Dees, Charlie DelMarcell, Jered McLenigan Directed by: Tom ReingBRÚIDIÚIL It's the Irish word for brutal. Fierce. Harsh. Severe. It's a knife fight in the street. Rats in a cage, clawing to get out. But even in a brutal world there can be a ray of hope ... Set in a completely re-imagined Dublin underworld, Made in China involves martial arts, snack foods, rogue cops, and savage low-lifes. A dreadful accident causes a violent tug-of-war between two criminal foot soldiers over the loyalty of a thrid. Self-loathing, guilt, and loneliness emerge in this frenzied narrative, which culminates in a blistering battle for survival. 2009 - Trad: The Remount by Mark DohertyStarring: Mike Dees, Jared Delaney, Charlie DelMarcelle Directed by: Tom Reing The Inis Nua hit of the 2007 Live Arts Festival Returns! Featuring the original cast and live music by John Lionarons and a one night only talk-back with playwright Mark Doherty. 2010 - Gagarin Way by Gregory BurkeStarring: Jared Michael Delaney, Jered McLenigan, Brian McCann, and Kevin Meehan Directed by: Tom ReingPhoto: Katie ReingAn electric, dark comedy, Gagarin Way uses the high-voltage story of a botched kidnapping to explore its characters' conflicting impulses toward apathy and outrage. Two dispossessed factory workers decide to make a political statement by kidnapping an executive from the factory's multi-national corporate owner. The problem is that the Cold War is long since over. The workers are too late for the revolution, and they find that their hostage challenges their assumptions abut the evils of globall economy. From the author of the acclimed Black Watch. 2010 - Bedbound by Enda WalshStarring: Melissa Lynch and Brian McCann Directed by: Tom Reing"I'm in the bed. The panic has sucked me dry again 'til all that's left is ta start over. I get that tiredness turn to tight...and I give into the words. I let go. Go." A young girl trapped by polio in her bed. A father, ashamed of her and her disability has holed her up in her room as he works in his furniture store. But today he is in the room with her. Why didn't he go to work? Why doesn't he want to leave the room? Why does he disturb the one solace his daughter is allowed? Why? From the writer of the highly acclaimed The Walworth Farce.

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Inis Nua Theatre Company is Philadelphia based place and this enity listed in Theatre category. Located at 1636 Sansom St PA 19103. Contact phone number of Inis Nua Theatre Company: (215) 454-9776