The Patriot Game

Beginning in April, we open 2013 with a most wonderful play: The Patriot Game, by Tom Murphy, directed by Ivan Motherway. Brian Friel once said of Murphy that he is: "The most distinctive, the most restless, the most obsessive imagination at work in the Irish theatre today." This play is testament to Friel's opinion. The play explores the events leading up to and including the Easter Rising in Dublin during Easter Week, 1916. It is an abstract, documentary style play and its treatment of those events will tear at your heart-strings. The Irish Theatre Players are pulling out all their talents to create for you, our loyal audience, a theatrical production you will never forget; exactly 97 years after those fateful events! We are proud to announce that this production will also be an Australian premiere. Be sure to book early, the last production "A Wake in the West" sold our before we opened. Sunday 14th is a matinee (3pm start)