Handcart Ensemble

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Paul Muldoon on Handcart’s The Burial at Thebes

“I simply can’t imagine a better production of The Burial at Thebes. Handcart Ensemble is a spectacularly gifted group, absolutely equal to the subtleties of Heaney’s text. I’ll go anywhere to see anything they do.” —Paul Muldoon

Join us Saturday, May 31st, for

PURGATORY

by W.B. Yeats

Join Handcart Ensemble for a one-night-only benefit performance of Purgatory, W.B. Yeats’s chilling one-act play about an attempt to break a curse that spans three generations.

The performance will be directed by Belfast actress/director Joan McCready and features Sam McCready in the role of the Old Man. The McCreadys have directed or acted in nearly all of the plays of W.B. Yeats, and served as Co-Artistic Directors of Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, the most celebrated theater in the North of Ireland.

Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 8:00 PM

Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery New York, NY 10012 (between Bleecker & Houston Streets)

Tickets available for $18 through SmartTix: click here for smarttix.com or call 212-868-4444.

Free food, a cash bar with one free drink, and mixing with fellow Yeats enthusiasts will follow.

Come support Handcart Ensemble’s commitment to theater that taps the power of the spoken word in this rare performance by the most accomplished of Yeats’s interpreters!

Cast

Old Man Sam McCready
Young Man Javen Tanner
Mother Jane Pejtersen
Psaltery Britt Higgins

Directed by Joan McCready

About Us

Old Wine in New Bottles

Handcart Ensemble produces new adaptations, new translations, and new works for the theater, drawing primarily from classical sources. Read our mission statement for more information.

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A moment during Andromaque rehearsals
A moment during Andromaque rehearsals.

Gearing Up for 2008/09

Thanks to our patrons for supporting Oedipus at Colonus, touted by NYTheatre.com as “another feather in Handcart’s cap as the city’s most reliable and interesting presenter of contemporary renditions of classic theatre texts.” Our one-night benefit performance of W.B. Yeats’s Purgatory was another success, its sell-out box office returns laying the groundwork for an ambitious 2008/09 season that will include Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood as you’ve never seen it before. Watch for more details on this thrillingly crafted production, arriving in New York after years of development and acclaim at international theater festivals…

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