A Dramatic Reading of By the Bog of Cats
By Marina Carr
Directed by Noreen C. Barnes
Sponsored in part by the University of Richmond Cultural Affairs Committee, Department of International Education and the Department of Classical Studies“One of Ireland’s prominent playwrights, Carr has blessed By the Bog of Cats with a protagonist to be reckoned with. Hester’s feisty fury is the play’s keynote. Rarely has a heroine spent so much time and energy vowing to make trouble.” —Houston Chronicle
Cousins Studio Theatre
The Modlin Center continues its play reading series with this beautiful play, the Abbey Theatre’s Dublin Theatre Festival offering and winner of the Irish Times/ESB Award for Best New Play, 1998. Marina Carr deepens her exploration into the darkness in people with an engrossing Irish melodrama. The scorn of Hester Swane, a woman abandoned once and discarded later, threatens an entire community as she awaits her mother’s return to the Bog of Cats. Forgiveness, vengeance and desperate forces figure in the tangled history embodied in her own powerful drama as it makes its way through heartbreak and—occasionally—hilarity, and secrets unfold toward a tragic resolution. Loosely based on Euripides’ tragedy
Medea,
By the Bog of Cats is a furious, uncompromising tale of greed and betrayal, of murder and profound self-sacrifice.
Tickets: $30 adults, $28 seniors 65+, $15 children 12 and under, $22 UR employees, UR students FREE
Tickets on sale January 21 (public) or January 16 (campus).
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By the Bog of CatsPosted: February 19, 2008; 11:18
by: Dana What a great evening! This is the third of the Modlin Center play readings that I've attended, and each time I'm amazed that so much of a story can be told and shown without staging and sets.
The actors and stage manager did a tremendous job of telling an intense story. I could easily see that snowy bog in Ireland, and I was alternately amused, discomforted, entranced, and challenged by the play.
Thank you for a wonderful evening of theatre!
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