Irish Repertory Theatre Presents Tony Award-Winning Actress Marie Mullen In “Fiercely Funny” New Play

The Irish Repertory Theatre in New York is presenting what it says is Deirdre Kinahan’s “fiercely funny and utterly gripping new play,” The Saviour, about a 67-year-old woman who has been “swept off her feet by a stranger and hasn’t felt this alive in years.”

However, it adds, “a visit from her son with dark revelations challenges the euphoria.”

The play, the theater said, “charts an extraordinary shift in Ireland’s social, political and religious life. It asks questions about responsibility, how we respond to trauma and the tricky question of forgiveness.”

Appearing in it are Irish actress Marie Mullen, who won a Tony Award in 1998 for best actress in a play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, and Jamie O’Neill. It is directed by leading Irish theater director Louise Lowe.

First broadcast online in 2021, the play makes its world stage premiere in New York. It will be presented from July 1 through August 13.

Earlier this month Irish Repertory Theatre held a gala, one-night-only concert at Town Hall in New York, “All My Loving,” paying tribute to former Beatle Paul McCartney.

Paul Muldoon—a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, former poetry editor of The New Yorker, currently a professor of the humanities at Princeton University, and editor of the award-winning book, The Lyrics, a collaboration with McCartney on his song lyrics—provided narration for the concert.

It also featured performances of McCartney’s music by Reeve Carney, Michael Cerveris, Jonathan Christopher, Melissa Errico, Kathryn Gallagher, Peter Gallagher, Amber Gray, Donna Kane, John Keating, Kylie Kuioka, Michael Mellamphy, Ciaran Sheehan and Gary Troy, among others.