Inis Nua Theatre Company
9 posts
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Review: ‘The Swallowing Dark’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company
“Your status has expired.” For Canaan Muponda, these are the most fearsome words imaginable. A refugee from Zimbabwe, Canaan has spent the last five years living in Liverpool with his young son. Now,...
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Review: ‘Swallow’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company
Swallow, by Scottish playwright Stef Smith, was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival in 2015. This American premiere is produced by Inis Nua Theatre Company (which specializes in works from England,...
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Review: ‘Leper + Chip’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company
The goal of Inis Nua Theatre Company is to “tell the story.” In its American premiere of Irish playwright Lee Coffey’s Leper + Chip we get not only the story, but the big picture. As with...
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Review: ‘Dublin by Lamplight’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company
The founding of The Abbey Theatre in 1904 was one of the pivotal events in Irish history. The Abbey championed the perspective of Irish playwrights and actors, and its founding was the moment that the...
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A Preview of Inis Nua Theatre Company’s ‘Dublin by Lamplight’ with Director Tom Reing
Hot off a Barrymore win for Best Ensemble in a Play for Inis Nua Theatre Company’s The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning and having received widespread acclaim for its current Barrymore-recommended...
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Review: ‘Radiant Vermin’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company in Philadelphia
To what lengths would you be willing to go to get what you want? That’s the moralizing question posed by English playwright Philip Ridley, in Inis Nua Theatre Company’s Philadelphia premiere of his...
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Review: ‘The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company in Philadelphia
Inis Nua Theatre Company has made a specialty of performing plays written in, and set in, the British Isles. So it may seem odd that Inis Nua is doing a play about Bradley Manning, the American...
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Review: ‘Spine’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company in Philadelphia
When we meet Amy in the opening moments of Clara Brennan’s Spine, she’s homeless, bewildered, and defensive. She’s a London teenager with a violent temper and a surly attitude. Over the course of a...
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‘Hooked!’ at Inis Nua Theatre Company in Philadelphia
If there’s one thing the Irish are good at, it’s keeping – and creating, and gossiping about – secrets. (My Irish grandmother practically turned it into an art form.) In Hooked!, playwright Gillian...
