All-Virtual 2021 ORIGIN 1ST IRISH OPENING CEREMONY
Mon Jan 11, 3pm (in New York), 8pm (in Ireland)
Join your hosts — Festival co-curators Sarah Street and Michael Mellamphy — as they welcome Festival participants from both sides of the Atlantic. Welcoming remarks from Carletta Downs, board chair Origin Theatre Company and Ireland’s New York Consul General Ciaran Madden.
Now in its 13th year, the Origin 1st Irish Theatre Festival — the world’s only festival devoted to producing and presenting the plays of contemporary Irish playwrights from around the world — is evolving into its new digital format. What we loose in terms of physical immediacy, we make up in range and accessibility. So join us from wherever you are… We look forward to seeing friends near and far!
20 virtual events — 6 recorded Theatrical Productions from Belfast, Dublin, Wexford, London and New York. 6 films and documentaries and 5 panels and talk-backs focusing on the cultural and social intersections between the Island of Ireland and the United States with participants on both sides of the Atlantic.