The University of Iowa Department of Theatre Arts will present Luck of the Irish by UI Playwrights Workshop alumna Kirsten Greenidge. This production will be on stage at 8 p.m. March 5-7 and 11-14, and at 2 p.m. March 8 in the David Thayer Theatre of the UI Theatre Building (200 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City).
Luck of the Irish
By Kirsten Greenidge
Directed by Tlaloc Rivas
David Thayer Theatre, UI Theatre Building, 200 N. Riverside Drive, Iowa City
March 5, 6, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 at 8 p.m.
March 8 at 2 p.m.
When an upwardly mobile African-American family wants to buy a house in an all-white neighborhood of 1950s Boston, they pay a struggling Irish family to act as their front. Fifty years later, the Irish family asks for “their” house back. Moving across the two eras, this intimate new play explores the complex impact of racial integration in Boston and the universal longing for home.
Luck of the Irish is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
A PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award recipient, Greenidge received an Obie and a Lortel Nomination for Milk Like Sugar. She graduated with an M.F.A. in playwriting in 2001. Additional work includes Bossa Nova, Rust, and Sans-Culottes in the Promised Land.
Tickets are $18 ($12 for seniors 65 and older, $10 for college students and youth, $5 for UI students with valid ID) and are available through the Hancher Box Office.
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all UI-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, contact the Hancher Box Office in advance at 319-335-1158.