April 2003

The Irish Arts Center in alliance with
The American Ireland Fund's Young Leaders Program
Is Proud to Present:

TOM HICKEY inTHE GALLANTJOHN-JOE

One of the most important Irish actors of his generation, Tom Hickey has created riveting portraits of Ireland's "everyman" on both stage and screen.He has received critical kudos for his performances at the Abbey Theatre and in such films as My Left Foot, Circle of Friends, The Butcher Boy and Ken Loach's Raining Stones and Possession, oppositeGwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart.

Now, Tom Hickey comes to the Irish Arts Center in a performance that earned him an Edinburgh Fringe Festival Best-Actor nomination. The Gallant John-Joe is a vivid portrait of a man at odds with his daughter, his country and himself.

Hickey delivers a "bravura performance…" (Mick Heaney, Sunday Times) as John-Joe Concannon, a physically decrepit but verbally dexterous widower whose obsession with his teenage daughter's supposed pregnancy highlights his alienation from the discombobulating facets of modern Ireland.

"A performance of rare virtuosity…" (Fintan O'Toole, The Irish Times), swinging from the tragic to the richly comic. Author of The Gallant John-Joe, Tom MacIntyre, is one of the most daring and excitingly original Irish writers working today.

He is widely published as playwright, poet and writer of fiction and the winner of the 2001 American Ireland Fund Literary Award.

When: April 17, 2003, 8pm
Where: The Irish Arts Center
553 West 51st St. (b/t 10th & 11th Ave)

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