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Irish & UK Tour Dates

Town Hall Theatre, Galway
Performances from May 23rd, 2012

Hampstead Theatre, London
First performances June 20th, 2012
Opening Performance June 23rd, 2012

Galway Arts Festival, Galway
Galway County Tour – w/b July 16th, 2012
Galway Town Hall Theatre Performances w/b July 23rd, 2012

Oxford Playhouse, Oxford – Booking Now Open
Opening Performance August 18th, 2012

Everyman Palace Theatre, Cork
A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming Rep
Opening Performance September 11th, 2012

Further touring in Ireland to be announced at a later date.

USA Tour Dates

USA dates to be announced at a later date.

About DruidMurphy

An epic tale of Irish emigration spanning 1846 to 1980 and told through three of the greatest plays by Tom Murphy, Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming. DruidMurphy is a major retrospective of one of Ireland’s most respected living dramatists.

Crossing oceans and spanning decades, DruidMurphy is a sweeping tale that allows audiences to see who they are – regardless of where they might call home. Told over the course of three evenings or in an entire cycle on one day, it promises to be one of the theatrical events of 2012.

This is a co-production between Druid and Quinnipiac University, Lincoln Center Festival, and Galway Arts Festival.

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FAMINE – County Mayo, West of Ireland – 1846
In Glanconnor village in the west of Ireland, the second crop of potatoes fails. The community now faces the real prospect of starvation.

A WHISTLE IN THE DARK – Coventry, England – 1960
Irish emigrants, the uprooted Carney family, adapt aggressively to life in an English city.

CONVERSATIONS ON A HOMECOMING – County Galway, West of Ireland – 1970s
Even the humblest of small-town pubs can be a magnet for dreamers. Michael, after a ten-year absence, suddenly returns from New York and has a reunion with old friends, in that same pub “The White House”.

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.

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GENERAL PRESS COVERAGE

The Sunday Times – The Top 100 Events for 2012 – 08.01.12

Theatre Pick: “After the success of DruidSynge comes the Galway company’s Irish, UK and US tour of three of Tom Murphy’s finest plays: Famine, Conversations on a Homecoming and A Whistle in the Dark.

The Irish Times – 25 Things to Look forward to in 2012 – 31.12.11

“It begins with a faith so rigid that it cannot be eaten away by the Great Hunger. It continues in 1960s Coventry, where an uprooted Irish family is tearing itself apart. And it concludes in a Galway pub where reunited friends seek new beliefs in a disenchanted Ireland. The tragedy of famine, as Tom Murphy saw it, was that “a hungry and demoralised people become silent”. Starting in May, the restorative journey of DruidMurphy, a staging of Tom Murphy’s Famine, A Whistle in the Dark and Conversations on a Homecoming, which will tour Ireland, London and the US, is the story of a nation. Essential.”