The Cripple of Inishmaan is now on a major 21 week Irish & US tour. For full detail about the tour, you can visit the production page.
Here’s some info about the tour
- Druid first presented their production of Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan in September 2008 and since March 2009, almost 50,000 people have already seen the production.
- The 2008/09 production travelled the length and breadth of Ireland, toured to Oxford and Manchester in the UK and played a completely sold-out three-month off-Broadway run at the Atlantic Theater in New York. This production won nine major international theatre awards.
- Between January and June 2011, The Cripple of Inishmaan will tour for a record breaking 21 weeks in Ireland and the US. The 17 week US tour is the longest tour by an Irish theatre company in decades.
- The Cripple of Inishmaan is just one of three productions Druid is touring to the US as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year-long season of Irish arts in America in 2011. You can read more here about the other productions.
- The first stop of the tour was completely sold out in Roscommon Arts Centre. In Ireland it will also tour to the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin (February 21 – March 5) and to the Town Hall Theatre in Galway (June 22 – 24).
- The 21 week tour will conclude on June 26th with two performances on the island of Inis Meáin, off the west coast of Ireland, the first time ever for the play to be performed there. Druid has had a long relationship with the island having first toured there in 1982 with The Playboy of the Western World.
- The US tour of The Cripple of Inishmaan is Druid’s third coast-to-coast US tour since 2008 and it includes debuts for Druid in five of the nine US cities on this tour. Druid will play a four week run in Los Angeles in May marking Druid’s fourth visit to the city in three years.
For full details, visit The Cripple of Inishmaan production page.
Druid would like to acknowledge the continued support of the Arts Council in funding the company’s work and also the support of Culture Ireland in funding its international touring programme including this US tour.
