Celebrating the Centenary of W.B. Yeats Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature
Nobel Words, a one-act play written by Yeats Thoor Ballylee Board Member Peggy Monahan, will be premiered at Thoor Ballylee on Thursday, 21st September at 8pm.
Performed by the Wild Swan Theatre Company, the play focuses on that momentous week in Yeats’s life when he learned of his Nobel Prize award. As Yeats’s gives a lecture on the founding of the Abbey Theatre, he invokes the memories of those who helped him along the way, in particular Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge.
Tickets are €10 and can be reserved by ringing 087 6360895.
Nobel Words travels to other venues including the Town Hall Theatre, Gort on 29th and 30th September, 8pm, and The Yeats Building, Sligo, on 7th October at 1pm. All tickets available through the number above – or at the doors but only if numbers permit.
Funding and support for the performance have been provided by the Yeats Thoor Ballylee Society, Galway County Council and Creative Ireland.
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