Lady Gregory in America

On Friday, 26 September 2025, at 19:00 at Lady Gregory Hotel, please join us for a one-night-only performance of Lady Gregory in America, an operetta by Colm Tóibín, with a modern score by Arturo Caruso. It opened in Wexford at the Opera Festival last October to great acclaim.

The piece explores the funny and alarming historic tale of the Abbey Theatre players’ tour of the United States in 1911, where they performed J.M. Synge’s controversial The Playboy of the Western World for American audiences for the first time. (The play’s opening in Dublin four years earlier led to audience riots and required police to help quell moral hysterics and protect the actors.)  Moral hysterics resumed Stateside in Philadelphia, as Tóibín and Caruso’s work musically recounts, landing the entire cast in jail for immorality!

One-Night-Only Friday Performance!
Lady Gregory in America tickets (sold separately): €20 per person
Tickets available at Gort Credit Union and via Eventbrite.