"The mixture of old world and new inside a pub that also features a dark, polished wood bar, feels just right for Corrib Theatre's variety show An Scéal (The Story), which combines traditional storytelling and music with modern movement to celebrate the Celtic feast day Imbolc and the return of the sun as well as the Irish National holiday St. Bridgid's Day, both of which are on February 1."
"As artistic director Holly Griffith said in her introduction to the January 22 preview performance, the production is an experiment, presented in the narrow space of a pub, where patrons (a.k.a. audience members) sit at tiny round tables, drinking beer or coffee/tea and eating shepherd's pie, a basket full of fish and chips, or, in my case, a bowl of carrot ginger soup."
Inflatable toucans hang from the ceiling of T.C. O'Leary's Irish Pub, balancing pints of Guinness above a dark, polished wood bar. Corrib Theatre stages An Scéal, a variety show that blends traditional storytelling and music with modern movement to honor Imbolc and St. Brigid's Day on February 1. The production was presented as an experiment in the narrow pub space for a January 22 preview. Patrons sat at tiny round tables, drinking and eating while rubbing elbows on a bench or turning chairs to face performers only inches away. The confined setting challenged the devising ensemble yet offered a liberating intimacy that encouraged audiences and performers to set aside conventional expectations of theater.
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