You can check out photos, interviews and reviews and a video interview with Garry Hynes.

Druid’s production of The Silver Tassie received its US premiere at the 2011 Lincoln Center Festival in New York on July 26, 2011.

The New York run was part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland’s year-long season of Irish arts in America in 2011 and The Silver Tassie was Druid’s third show to tour to the USA in 2011. Other Druid shows that toured the US in the same year included a 17 week coast to coast tour of The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh and a three week run of Penelope by Enda Walsh at the Studio Theatre in Washington DC.

Druid’s 2010 production of The Silver Tassie toured Ireland and the UK and was one of the highlights of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival.

About The Silver Tassie

This sweeping play follows the lives of two young footballing heroes from the tenements of Dublin through the battlefields of France, and their return home.

Using all the resources of the theatre including live music and dance, this is an epic staging of one of O’Casey’s great plays.

To read more, you can go to the production page for Druid’s production of The Silver Tassie in 2010.

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.

US REVIEWS

The New York Times – 27.07.11
“directed by Garry Hynes, probably the foremost interpreter of Irish drama in the world today”

“performed with idiomatic richness by the Druid’s fine cast”

Variety – 28.07.11
“Druid Theater’s expressionistic staging of this 1929 play, helmed with cruel, uncompromising clarity by Garry Hynes”

New York Irish Arts – 29.07.11
“an absolutely remarkable production…Hynes pulls precise and powerful performances from every member of the cast.”

The Huffington Post – 27.07.11
“Hynes’s cast is uniformly strong”

“Hynes has – with the immeasurable aide of set designer Francis O’Connor – given the play a stunning look.”

Theatermania – 27.07.11
“director Garry Hynes’ astonishing staging for Ireland’s Druid Theatre coalesces into a profoundly moving theatrical experience.”

GENERAL PRESS COVERAGE

US Coverage

The Irish Echo – 27.07.11
READ an interview with director Garry Hynes.

The New York Times – 21.07.11
READ an interview with director Garry Hynes and a preview article about The Silver Tassie.

Irish Coverage

Galway Advertiser – 27.07.11
READ Ronnie O’Gorman’s account of the New York opening.

Arena on RTÉ Radio 1 – 26.07.11
LISTEN to an excerpt from the show with actors Eamon Morrissey and John Olohan.