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Unless noted otherwise, events are held at the
National Arts Club. There is a dress code for events at the Club,
which is just east of Park Ave. South and 20th St.
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Upcoming Events
April 8th -May 2nd 2009
The Yeats Project
Festival of all Yeats plays presented by the Irish Repertory Theater.in association with
Glucksman Ireland House, the American Irish Historical Society, and the WB Yeats Society of New York . Eight plays will have full productions on the Theater main stage; in Cycle A, The Countess Cathleen, The Cat And The Moon, and On Baile's Strand; in Cycle B, The Land of Heart's Desire, The Pot of Broth, Purgatory, A Full Moon In March and Cathleen Ni Houlihan. The remaining plays will be given readings in the downstairs studio theater, under the direction of George C. Heslin of the Origin Theatre Company.
Wed, Apr 8, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle B. Thur, Apr 9, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A. Fri, Apr 10, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle B; Studio: Readings of Calvary, The Resurrection, The Hour Glass, and screening of "Yeats and the Theatre." Sat, Apr 11, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A; Studio: Readings of Deirdre, The Death of Cuchulain, The Dreaming of the Bones; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle B; Studio: Readings of The Shadowy Waters, The Only Jealousy of Emer, The King’s Threshold. Sun, Apr 12, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A; Studio: Readings of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex, Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus. . Wed, Apr 15, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A; 8 p.m. Main: Opening night-Cycle B. Thur, Apr 16, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle B; Studio: Readings of The King of the Great Clock Tower, The Unicorn from the Stars, The Herne’s Egg. Fri, Apr 17, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A. Sat, Apr 18, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A; Sun, Apr 19, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A Wed, Apr 22, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle B; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A; Thur, Apr 23, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A. Fri, Apr 24, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A, then discussion led by James Flannery; Studio: Readings of At Hawk’s Well, The Green Helmet, and The Player Queen, screening of "Players and the Painted Stage." Sat, Apr 25, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle B; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A. Sun, Apr 26, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle B; Wed, Apr 29, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle B; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A. Thur, Apr 30, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle B. Fri, May 1, 8 p.m. Main: Cycle B. Sat, May 2, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle B; 8 p.m. Main: Cycle A; Sun, May 3, 3 p.m. Main: Cycle A.
Other events will include
- five special poetry evenings featuring distinguished guests
- A recital by Darrah Carr Dance (Below)
- a movie screening of the film The Words Upon the Window Pane, starring Geraldine Chaplin, Gerald McSorley, and Donal Donnelly
- a literary evening featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, Colm McCann, and special musical guests (Below).
- An open microphone night for the public to take to the stage with a favorite Yeats poem. (Below)
- At the American Irish Historical Society, a special reading of The Words Upon the Window Pane, with a screening of The Other World: Yeats and the Esoteric (Below)
- John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard presenting The Collected Letters, Volume IV. See below
- A panel discussion on Form and Idea in the Theatre of Yeats, (below).
- A pecial one time reading of Ezra Pound, and their various lovers including Maud Gonne and Olivia Shakespeare.(below)
Performances on the main stage are Wednesday - Saturday at 8 PM, Matinees are Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 3 PM. Tickets to The Yeats Project are on sale now. A special $100 Festival Pass is good for one admission to all Yeats Project events presented at the Irish Rep, subject to availability on a first-come, first-served basis. Single tickets to each Cycle A and Cycle B performances, $65 and $55. Single tickets to all other events, are $20. Tickets can be purchased by calling (212) 727-2737 or at the Box Office at 132 West 22nd Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues. 20% discount for Yeats Society, Ireland House and AIHS members. See further details here.
April 17th 2009 8PM
April 22nd 2009,8PM
Sailing to Byzantium
Special reading of the play by Sandra Deer. A story of love gone awry, against the backdrop of the Irish Rebellion of 1916 and World War I. It tells of Yeats, his secretary Ezra Pound, and their various loves of the Shakespear women. At the Studio Theatre, Irish Repertory, 132 W. 22nd St. $20 as part of the Yeats Project (above).
April 23rd 2009 7PM
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats
Distinguished
Yeats scholars Prof. John Kelly of St. John's College, Oxford, and Prof.
Ronald Schuchard of Emory University discuss their collaboration on the
most recent volume of "one of the great works of literary scholarship of
our time." (London Review of Books), The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats:
Volume IV (OUP, 2005). This volume, covering the crucial years
1905-1907, was awarded the ninth Morton N. Cohen Award for a
Distinguished Edition of Letters by the Modern Language Association and is the fourth of a projected
fifteen volumes. At NYU's Glucksman Ireland House, 1 Washington Mews
(Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and 8th Street). $10; free to
members of the Yeats Society and Ireland House.
April 25th, 10AM-5PM
Taste of Yeats Summer School
All-day program evoking spirit of the school in Ireland (see below). Program includes Profs. Jonathan Allison (UofKY and 2009 SS director), John Kelly (St. John's,Oxford) and Ronald Schuchard (Emory), both winners of our M.L. Rosenthal Golden Apple Award for contributions to Yeats studies; and Michael Wood (Princeton). Sam McCready presents a new version of The Great Yeats!, his one-man show about John Butler Yeats Includes a luncheon, social and summer school reunion (we may have many visitors from the summer school organization in Ireland). At NYU Glucksman Ireland House, One Washington Mews (Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and 8th Street). Fees Entire program, including refreshments, the afternoon social and the plays is $55 ($30 without lunch); morning only $19; afternoon with social $25; social only $10, . Special rates for paid-up Society members reserving by April 23rd. See detailed program.
April 25th, 3 PM
Form and Idea in the Theater of Yeats
At the Studio Theatre, Irish Repertory, 132 W. 22nd St. Yeats’ plays are written in perhaps the widest range of styles of any dramatist in the history of the theater. In each of his plays, the form is integrally related to the ideas being explored. Drawing on their experience with the Yeats International Theatre Festival (1989-1993) at the Abbey Theatre, panelists will discuss the ways in which Yeats employed masks, music, dance, puppetry, and a variety of different acting styles and conventions to express his mythopoeic and mystical vision of his world. Moderated by: Prof. James Flannery, Director of the W.B. Yeats Foundation at Emory University and Executive Director of the Yeats Festival. Panelists include: Bill Whelan, Composer of Riverdance and Composer and Music Director of the Yeats Festival; and Roman Paska, internationally known master puppeteer who staged a production of The Shadowy Waters at the Yeats Festival. $20 as part of the Yeats Project (above).
April 26th, 3 PM
SOLD OUT A Terrible Beauty: Politics and Passion
A program of poems and writings that reflect the tumultuous times and the poet’s response to a world where "the best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity." With a screening of the documentary “The Mask,” which explores Yeats later years and legacy. At the Studio Theatre, Irish Repertory, 132 W. 22nd St. $20 as part of the Yeats Project (above).
April 28th 2009 8PM
Take the Stage
At the Irish Repertory Theatre, 132 W. 22nd St. Led by Marian Seldes, John McMartin, Brian F. O’Byrne, Christina Prince, and David Staller, members of the public are invited to come and strut their stuff. If you love Yeats poetry and your dream was always to bask in the footlights with legendary performers, this is a night you will never forget! If you intend to participate, the title of your Yeats poem must accompany your reservation. $20 as part of the Yeats Project (above).
April 30th 2009
Poem In Your Pocket Day. Remember to carry your favorite Yeats poem for sharing today.
April 30th 2009,7PM
The Words Upon the Window Pane
George C. Heslin directs a reading of "The Words Upon the Window Pane" in the beautiful and recently renovated American Irish Historical Society, serving as a backdrop for the play set in an eloquent Georgian townhouse in Dublin, where seven characters assemble to have a séance. The lost souls of Jonathan Swift, Stella, and Vanessa float through the air. The evening also includes a screening presentation of the documentary “The Other World: Yeats and the Esoteric.” The American Irish Historical Society is located at 991 5th Avenue. This event is free, but reservations are required. Call the box office at 212-727-2737.
May 2nd 2009,8PM
The Waters and the Wild: Early Poems and Folk Stories
A lyrical evening immersed in the Celtic Twilight featuring poems and tales of Sligo and his early folk discoveries. With a screening of the documentary "Yeats: The Life and Works of WB Yeats".
At the Studio Theatre, Irish Repertory, 132 W. 22nd St. $20 as part of the Yeats Project (above).
CANCELLED: May 12th 2009 6:30 PM
An Evening with Deirdre Toomey and Warwick Gould
Deirdre Toomey and Warwick Gould accept our M.L. Rosenthal Award for contributions to Yeats studies. Morgan Library, 225 Madison Ave. (26th St.) Professor Toomey is unable totravel at this time.
May 15th-16th
Yeats' Anniversary Conference "Voice and Mask-Performing Identities", Georgia State University, Atlanta
in Association with Universit&eactute; Charles de
Gaulle Lille III and Emory University; co-sponsored by the WB Yeats
Society of NY. This conference seeks to address the whole corpus of Yeats' poetic and
dramatic works, as well as his prose writings.
Yeats' impressive array of personae or masks combines with the conscious
manipulation of voice, ranging from the remote and dignified to the trivial
and lowly. Variations on voice and mask are decisive modalities of Yeats'
effort to recreate an oral tradition and thus contribute to the elaboration
of Ireland's cultural identity. On the other hand, they also relate to his
histrionic propensity for "remaking himself" simultaneously with his own
creation. Whether collective or individual, "identity" is thus envisaged as
plural and dynamic, as performance rather than essence.
Thus, this paradoxical ontology of "voice and mask" in turn calls attention
to the element of theatricality at the heart of Yeatsian aesthetics, in
dramatic and non-dramatic forms alike. It also invites analyses of the ways
in which literature overlaps with, and sometimes seeks to absorb, other art
forms, in particular music and the visual arts; central to Yeats' oeuvre,
for instance, is the tension and constant alternation between stasis and
kinetic energy.
Confirmed keynote speakers include James Pethica (Williams College),
Warwick Gould (University of London), and Elizabeth Muller (Université de
Nantes).
Registration information and other details to come.
July 25th-August 9th 2009
50th Annual
Yeats Summer School in Sligo
Tuition 650 euros for two weeks.Directors Jonathan Allison, University of Kentucky, and Maureen Murphy. The school will be opened by Helen Vendler on Sunday 26th July. There will be a poetry workshop, and poetry readings by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Dennis O'Driscoll, Julie O'Callaghan, Justin Quinn, Peter McDonald and others, and a drama workshop led by Sam & Joan McCready. Lectures include:
- Denis Donoghue (NYU): Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound;
- Helen Vendler (Harvard): Vacillation: the Yeatsian Contraries;
- Roy Foster (Oxford): Yeats and Fascism;
- Terence Brown (Trinity): Yeats: the Colour of Poetry;
- Edna Longley (Queen's), Yeats's Other Island;
- John Kelly (Oxford):Inheriting a Philosophy of Life: W.B. Yeats's Debt to his Father
- Elizabeth Butler Cullingford (U of Texas): Cuchulain's Only Son
- David Fitzpatrick (TCD): Yeats and Sligo
- Ronald Schuchard (Emory): Yeats' Early Vision: Lost and Regained, 1903-1917
- Warwick Gould (U of London): Yeats, Arthur Symons and Symbolism
- Bernard O'Donoghue (Oxford): Yeats, Edward Walsh and the Gathering of Folklore
- Deirdre Toomey (U of London): Sent out naked on the roads Yeats's Phantasmagoria from The Cold Heaven to Cuchulain comforted
- Colbert Kearney (UC Cork), Yeats and O'Casey in the Abbey Theatre
- George Bornstein (U of Michigan): The Winding Stair and Other Poems
- Declan Kiely (Morgan Library): Yeats and Milton
- Meg Harper (Georgia State), Cuchulain the American
- Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway), Observing Jack Yeats
- Anne Margaret Daniel (New School U): Yeats the Literary Hero
- Peter McDonald (Oxford) Title forthcoming
- Maureen Murphy (Hofstra): Lily and Lolly Yeats: the American Dimension
- Jonathan Allison (U of Kentucky): The Old Moon-Phaser: Yeats, Auden and MacNeice.
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Seminars to include the following:
and others to be announced.For further information and application forms watch the Sligo web pages or contact the Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland; 011-353-7191-42693; fax 011-353-7191-42780
011-353-71-42693; fax: 071-91
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