A Night in November
Featuring Alan Smyth
Directed by Tim Redmond
Assistant Director: Caroline Morahan
Written by Marie Jones
The multi-award winning one-person play, set in Northern Ireland, centers on Kenneth McCallister, a bored protestant dole clerk who, after witnessing the hatred and bigotry of his own community sets out on a voyage of discovery and redemption. Racism, sectarianism, belonging and soccer collide in this often hilarious and deeply moving examination of unconscious bias, and national identity.
Los Angeles: Sept 5th - 8th 2024 @ The Pico Playhouse
San Francisco : September 13th @ 8pm at United Irish Cultural Center
San Diego : Sept 25th @ 7pm at The Ould Sod, San Diego.
St. Paul, Minneapolis : Oct 5th @ 7pm at Celtic Junction Arts Center
Chicago : Oct 8th @ 7pm at Irish American Heritage Center
Kansas : Oct 11th @ 7.30pm at Kansas City Irish Center
Canton : Oct 13th @ 7.30pm at Irish Cultural Center, Canton, MA.
Maine : Oct 15th @ 7.30pm at Maine Irish Heritage Center
Boston : Oct 17th @ 7pm at The Burren Somerville, MA
The sectarian prejudices of 1994 Northern Ireland are challenged in an arena even more impassioned than politics: football. This brilliant and piercingly funny one-man play demonstrates how tolerance is possible even in the face of our most entrenched rivalries…. Alan Smyth gives an electrifying performance of this compelling, comic, and profoundly hopeful story from Irish playwright Marie Jones.
(Running time 1hr 40 minutes, no intermission)
CIACLA, The Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles is proud to be producing this production.
The production is kindly supported by CIACLA, Department of Foreign Affairs Ireland Emigrant Support Program, Los Angeles Arts & Culture and Special thanks to the Diederich Family for their support.