THE SUITCASE UNDER THE BED by Teresa Deevy Four Short Plays Now playing and coming Soon!
One Remarkable Evening
THE SUITCASE UNDER THE BED An Evening of Four Short Plays by Teresa Deevy July 21 through September 23 Tue - Sat 7:30PM Sat & Sun 2:00PM Wed matinees 8/23, 9/6 & 9/20 No performance 9/5
Special Brunch Event with Jacqui Deevy Sunday, July 23 12pm Brunch and pre-show talk with Jacqui Deevy (Teresa’s grendniece, literary executor and keeper of the flame) before matinee performance of The Suitcase Under the Bed. At West Bank Cafe. Brunch and matinee ticket: $78.50 Brunch only: $40.00 Brunch and pre-show talk with Jacqui Deevy (Teresa’s grandniece) Also, Sat. July 22 after the matinee Post-show EnrichMint talk with Jacqui Deevy Call 212.315.0231 for reservations
THE LUCKY ONE By A.A. Milne Directed by Jesse Marchese Must close June 25 Tue - Sat 7:30pm; Sat & Sun 2pm “Convey(s) why Milne was a successful playwright before he became better known for those enduring children’s stories about Winnie-the-Pooh and friends.” New York Times “So good a play that it’s hard to understand why it’s so rarely revived and isn’t considered at least a minor classic.” Talkin’ Broadway
Spring Raffle Teresa Deevy had six plays produced by the Abbey Theatre between 1930 and 1936, and then the Abbey turned its back on her, effectively ending her career as an Abbey playwright. “I must just make an opening elsewhere,” she wrote to a friend, and then began to write for the radio—a remarkable turn of events, given that she was completely deaf. She lost her hearing due to an illness in her late teens and was never able to hear her beautifully-crafted dialogue spoken. In 2010, Mint Theater Company re-introduced author Teresa Deevy to the world with our acclaimed production of the play the Abbey turned down, Wife to James Whelan, followed by Temporal Powers in 2011 and Katie Roche in 2013. Mint has received worldwide recognition for our effort to restore Teresa Deevy to her proper place in the canon of Irish dramatic literature. Fintan O’Toole, one of Ireland’s leading public intellectuals and drama critics, acknowledged the importance of both Deevy and Mint’s exploration of her work in the pages of the Irish Times in 2013: Deevy was the great white hope of the Abbey in the mid-1930s. Katie Roche was included alongside the staples of O’Casey and Synge on the Abbey’s tour of the US in 1937. And then she was simply dropped, suddenly and without explanation. Deevy’s next play, Holiday House, was accepted by the Abbey but then shelved, and she was never told why. That breach has never been properly repaired. The Abbey has twice staged Katie Roche in recent decades... But there has been no coherent exploration of Deevy’s work as a whole by any Irish company. Instead, the Mint Theater in New York, which specialises in rediscovering lost work, has engaged in what it calls the Teresa Deevy Project. This summer, Mint will resume our Teresa Deevy Project with The Suitcase Under the Bed, so named for the location where Deevy’s writing was stored for decades, prior to Mint’s Artistic Director Jonathan Bank’s arrival at the Deevy family home in Waterford in 2010.
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