ARÁN AGUS IM
Upcoming West Coast North America Tour 2023
Arán & Im is a theatrical performance/installation in which Manchán bakes sourdough bread for 70 minutes while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our natural world.
It is a celebration of language, land and local Irish food, with freshly-baked traditional sourdough bread for the audience to slice and spread with butter they churn themselves from Irish cream.
Is taibhiú drámaíochta é Arán & Im ina mbácálann Manchán arán taois ghéir ar feadh 70 nóiméad fad is a thugann sé léargas ar iontaisí na Gaeilge – agus é ag ceiliúradh focail mhealltacha a bhaineann leis an tírdhreach, téarmaí i dtaca le hiomas agus léirstean, agus an iliomad nathanna a thugann beocht do chumhacht agus mistéir an tsaoil nádúrtha.
Creative Team
Written and Performed by: Manchán Magan
Presented and Produced by: Once Off Productions
Generously Supported by: Culture Ireland
Presented in Association with: Irish Arts Center, New York & CIACLA
Design: Tom de Paor
Producers: Maura O'Keeffe & Sadhbh Barrett Coakley
Construction: Barry Rogerson
Costume: Hazel McCague
Funded by The Arts Council
With thanks to Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish Consulates in New York, Los Angeles & Vancouver. Originally produced in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre and with funding from Foras na Gaeilge.
West Coast USA and Canada Tour 2023 Dates
28th September: Broadwater Theater Complex, Los Angeles
30th September: Broadwater Theater Complex, Los Angeles
1st October: Irish Cultural Center, Phoenix, Arizona
5th October: United Irish Cultural Centre, San Francisco
6th October: United Irish Cultural Centre, San Francisco
10th October: University of Montana, Missoula
14th October: Wheatgrass Books, Livingston
18th October: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle
20th October: Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum, Seattle
23rd October: Corrib Theatre / Historic Alberta House, Portland, Oregon
26th October: The Cultch Historic Theatre, Vancouver
USA & Canada Tour 2022 Dates
March March 12th: Carnegie Science Centre, Pittsburgh, PA
March 15th: TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, AB March 18th: St Louis Science Center, St Louis, MO March 20th: Tennessee Shakespeare Company, Memphis, TN April April 1st - 3rd: Irish Arts Centre, New York, NY April 5th: Irish American Heritage Museum, Albany, NY
April 7th: Irish Cultural Center, Canton, MA
April 8th: Boston College, Boston, MA (tickets available at the door)
April 13th: Buffalo Irish Center, Buffalo, NY
April 14th - 16th: Canada Ireland Foundation, Toronto, ON
April 20th: Zing Train, Ann Arbour, MI
April 21st: The Gaelic League, Detroit, MI
April 24th: Celtic Junction Arts Center, St Paul, MN
April 27th: Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago, IL
April 28th: Chicago Gaelic Park, Chicago, IL
April 30th: Celtic MKE, Milwaukee, WI