Tony Award-winner, Garry Hynes, Druid Theatre’s Co-Founder and Artistic Director, will talk about the inspiration Lady Gregory provided to stage live theatre in the extensive rural tour of Druid:Gregory.
On Saturday 28 September in Coole Park, Garry will be in conversation with Melissa Sihra, Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre at Trinity College Dublin, as part of the Lady Gregory-Yeats Autumn Gathering.
The creative and ambitious response by the DruidGregory 2020 project to Covid, centred on the works of Lady Gregory and also included some of her poetry and other writings, as well as music, dance, and the work of her great friend, the poet WB Yeats. Following the launch at Coole Park itself, a barnstorming 15 venue, 4-week tour of Gregory’s beloved county Galway, from Portumna to Glenamaddy, Ballinasloe to Clifden, and many more communities in between, demonstrated the powerful and magic combination that is Druid, Garry Hynes and Lady Gregory!
Lady Gregory is one of those people of whom many have heard but few know much about. More than one hundred years ago, she was inspired to create an Irish literary and theatre culture that would express the richness of the Irish nation.
This led to the founding of the Abbey Theatre and the subsequent creation of an indigenous Irish Theatre. On its foundation in 1975, Druid became part of that story.’
For further information and booking, please go to www.autumngathering.com
