May and Timothy are looking after the father who has long since taken ill to bed. Their own lives are on hold and they’re not getting any younger. Should they stay and help? Or is it time for them to move on?
This dark comedy set on the northside of Cork city is about life and death, love and hate, jealousy, rage, horror, and homicidal notions – just a normal play about a family.
Kevin Barry is the multi-award-winning writer of the novels Beatlebone and City Of Bohane, and the story collections Dark Lies The Island, and There Are Little Kingdoms. Autumn Royal is his first piece written originally for stage and was acclaimed by critics and the public alike during its world premiere run at The Everyman, Cork in 2017.
Irish Repertory Theatre is delighted to reopen the Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage with this North American premiere.
1 hr 30 min
October 8th, 2021
November 21st, 2021
A dark comedy about life and death, love and hate, jealousy, rage, horror, and homicidal notions – just a normal play about a family.
By: Kevin Barry
Director: Ciarán O’Reilly
Cast list: Maeve Higgins, John Keating
Design: Charlie Corcoran
Lighting: Michael Gottlieb
Costume: China Lee
Sound: Ryan Rumery, Hide Nakajo
Other info: Original music by Ryan Rumery, Projection design by Dan Scully
Kevin Barry’s dark comedy Autumn Royal makes its North American premiere at the Irish Repertory Theatre, opening the venue’s fall 2021 season. Get Autumn Royal tickets on TodayTix.
Autumn Royal is a play that follows May and Timothy, two adult siblings still living in their childhood home taking care of their bedridden father. Stuck in Cork, Ireland, they dream of picking their lives back up and getting away (Timothy, to Australia) — if they can only get rid of their dad. The two plan to drop him off at a nursing home, but even when they become freer physically, they’re haunted by memories of their family’s past that make it emotionally difficult to escape the house.
The show played its first-ever engagements in Ireland in 2017 and 2018, and the production of Autumn Royal in New York marks the play's North American debut. Ciarán O’Reilly directs, with Maeve Higgins and John Keating starring as May and Timothy.
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