The cast has been announced for the production of a staged reading of Strange Interlude the epic Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene O’Neill play which will be showcased as part of the second annual Eugene O’Neill Festival of Theatre in New Ross, from October 9th to 13th.
The play is rarely performed and is a masterpiece of American Theatre, at New Ross, it will be presented in two parts and includes a buffet dinner at the Dunbrody Visitor Centre during the interval. It is directed by Ben Barnes, with a top-class cast of international actors of stage and screen including, Jamie Beamish, Des Keogh, Cathy Belton, Killian Coyle, Peter Gaynor, Maria Guiver, Mark Lambert and Julia Lane.
Actor Jamie Beamish is from Waterford and based in London, he has had appearances on several television series over the years, including the Derry Girls.
Des Keogh also joins the cast, Des is a veteran of Irish stage, TV and radio and is probably one of Ireland’s most well-known actors in the country. He hosted Music for Middle brows for 35 years on RTE and since 2016, he appeared as Reg Barker on the CBBC series, Little Roy.
Cathy Belton will next be seen on screen in Herself, directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Killian Coyle is in BBC’s new series Dublin Murders, due for release later this year. Killian is a Dublin based actor and producer his recent work in film includes the role of Cian Howley in the RTE series Fair City in 2018.
The Eugene O’Neill Festival of Theatre in New Ross opens on Thursday, October 10th with a production of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning masterpiece Long Day’s Journey Into Night, an autobiographical insight into its late, legendary playwright and a compassionately brutal look at one family’s struggle to fight for love itself.
A number of lunchtime sessions will also be on offer on October 10th and 11th at 1 pm, featuring a programme of readings and performances of a selection of O’Neill’s short plays and writings.
Closing the Festival on Sunday evening and nurturing the talent of the local modern-day playwright will be a production of The Diary of Maynard Perdu written and directed by the award-winning Wexford playwright Billy Roche and starring the acclaimed actor/musician Peter McCamley. The Diary Of Maynard Perdu is set in the fantastic, mirrored, burlesque world of the Spiegeltent where fantasy and delusion reign supreme. Based on the novella by Billy Roche, this one-man show takes us on a romantic journey of adventure and intrigue all of which serves to mask the pain and loss that are buried deep within.
Tickets to the festival weekend at St. Michael’s Theatre in New Ross are available at €100. Tickets for individual events are available from €15; for further details see www.eugeneoneillfestival.com or call 051-421255
The Irish festival takes place in partnership with the US festival in California named after the playwright, whose family hails from Tinnerany. It is co-chaired by Sean Reidy, former CEO of the Kennedy Trust, together with Dan McGovern, President of The Eugene O’Neill Foundation, with Tomás Kavanagh as Festival Director, Dr Richard Hayes of WIT as Academic Adviser and Alice O’Neill McLoughlin, one of Eugene O’Neill’s remaining Irish relatives from Tinneranny just outside New Ross, from where James O’Neill emigrated from in 1851.
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