Abbey Theatre of Ireland

Since 1904, Ireland's National Theatre has shouldered the burden of staging the people’s art in the land of Beckett, Synge, and Yeats, the modernist poet-prophet who founded it. The Abbey's tradition of fearless writing lives on in this "audacious" new work by O’Rowe (NY Times) which recounts angels and demons, passion and atonement, in three interlocked monologues that wrestle vivid, half-rhymed poetry from sublime vulgarity. "Gripping, grotesque, and deliriously good" (Sunday Tribune (UK)), O’Rowe’s sordid epic pushes toward heaven but wallows in unholier places. This is the Abbey Theatre’s first-ever appearance in NC and the first time they've toured the US in a decade.

Warning: Not for the faint of heart. Contains strong language and violent descriptions. Recommended for ages 18 and over