Overview

Tony award-winning Druid presents DruidMurphy – Plays by Tom Murphy - the story of Irish emigration; a story both of those who went and those who were left behind.

Told through three of the greatest plays of Tom Murphy; Conversations on a Homecoming, A Whistle in the Dark and Famine, DruidMurphy is a major celebration of one of Ireland’s most respected living dramatists.

Crossing oceans and spanning decades, DruidMurphy is directed by Garry Hynes, described by The New York Times as 'probably the foremost interpreter of Irish drama in the world today', and covers the period from The Great Hunger of the 19th century to the ‘new’ Ireland of the 70s, exploring what we mean when we call a place home.

Part of the London 2012 Festival – the finale of the Cultural Olympiad -  DruidMurphy promises to be one of the theatrical events of 2012.

The DruidMurphy Experience
You can see each of the plays individually over three evenings or experience all three plays together in a single day. The DruidMurphy cycle day includes an afternoon and an evening break.

Last at Hampstead Theatre with Penelope in February 2011, don’t miss Druid’s London premiere of DruidMurphy.
 
CLICK TO BOOK NOW: Conversations on a Homecoming Even the humblest of small-town pubs can be a magnet for dreamers. Over a long drinking session, Michael – recently returned from New York after a ten year absence – has a reunion with old friends in that same pub 'The White House'. Faced with the changes the years have wrought, they begin a process of self-discovery.
 
CLICK TO BOOK NOW: A Whistle in the Dark
It’s 1960 and Michael Carney is an Irish emigrant living in Coventry, England with his wife, Betty. He has given lodgings to his three brothers and the imminent arrival of his father and younger brother cause tensions to boil over.

CLICK TO BOOK NOW: Famine
Famine is set in 1846 in County Mayo in the West of Ireland. In Glanconnor village in the west of Ireland, the second crop of potatoes fails. The community now faces the real prospect of starvation. John Connor, head of the family, leader of the village, son of glorious forefathers, is surrounded by starvation and poverty. He will do the right thing – by himself, by God and by his family.

Druid gratefully acknowledges the support of Culture Ireland with the UK tour and the Arts Council of Ireland in funding the original staging of this production.