The Cripple of Inishmaan is a little Irish yarn about a little Irish island and little Billy Claven’s big Irish dream. Centenary Stage Company presents The Cripple of Inishmaan opening February 22nd and running through March 10th in the Sitnik Theatre at the David and Carol Lackland Center.    [closer view] Photo by Bob Eberle It's 1934 and the sleepy island of Inishmaan is abuzz with the news that Hollywood has come to County Galway, as a famous director arrives on the neighboring island to film his movie The Man of Aran. Up until then, “Cripple Billy,” as he’s known on the little island of Inishmaan, has spent most of his days gazing at cows and yearning for a girl who wants no part of him. Billy becomes determined to cross the sea and audition for the Yank but the poverty-stricken, gossip-loving locals take a harder view of his gamble for fame and fortune.

St. Patrick's Parade This celebration of the Celtic arts culminates with Hackettstown’s 5th Annual St. Patrick's Parade on Sunday, March 10th. Friday March 8, at 6:00 PM will kick things off with the St. Patrick’s Day Grand Marshall Reception. The Grand Marshall leading the parade will be Centenary College President Dr. Barbara Lewthwaite. Sunday will find the town filled with spectators coming to enjoy the biggest parade of the year which will include Irish bands, Community Groups, Bagpipes, Drums, Centenary College Clubs and Groups, Horses, Dancers, Fire Departments and Rescue Squads and hometown favorites the Junior and Senior Colonial Musketeers and the Hackettstown Community Band. Visit www.hackettstownbid.com for details on the event.

Enjoy these Interview Videos - The Cripple of Inishmaan                                        Tom Morin Tom Morin playing the part of Cripple Billy What do you think audiences will like most about this play? "... while it is funny, there's also a real incredible soul and heart to the play. I think the audience is going to love connecting to the stories."   Additional Interview Videos: Carolyn Popp performing Aunt Kate Dave Scheffler performing as Doctor McSharry Carl Wallnau, Director

Chance to win a Dining Gift Certificate!                       Join us these last 2 weekends of The Cripple of Inishmaan Feb. 28th - Mar. 10th for a chance to win a Dining Gift Certificate to either Mama's Pizza & Cafe Baci in Hackettstown NJ or to Pasta Grill by Enzo in Mansfield NJ! Dont miss out on this opportunity to see a hillarious show and a great meal!   Thanks to Mama's Restaurant and Cafe Baci and Pasta Grill by Enzo's in Mansfield for their generous donations.

Irish humor is legendary and Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh—author of the screen play for the films In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths—has single handedly taken it to a new contemporary level. McDonagh is considered one of the greatest living Irish playwrights having authored two sets of trilogies, The Leenane and the Aran Islands trilogies, located in and around County Galway in Ireland. Plays like The Beauty Queen of Leenane helped to launch his career making him the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards’ Most Promising Playwright in 1996. In his relatively short career, he has also been nominated four times for a Tony Award for Best Play. In The Cripple of Inishmaan, McDonagh gives audiences a merciless portrayal of a world comically cramped and relentlessly absurd with eccentric island characters trading stories to within an inch of their lives while a young man tries to make sense of who he is.
 
 
 
 

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Photo by Bob Eberle

Director:   Carl Wallnau

Play by:   Martin McDonagh

L-R:   Carolyn Popp as Kate, Catherine Rust as Eileen, Leah Barker as Helen, Mark Byrne as Babbybobby, Tom Morin as Cripple Billy, Kathleen Huber as Mammy, Kyle Parham as Bartley, and David Edwards as Johnnypateenmike.

The Cast
Playing the role of Cripple Billy is Tom Morin, a 2010 MFA graduate of Ohio University and performing for the first time on the Centenary Stage. This production also features familiar faces to those who frequent CSC. David Edwards and Kathleen Huber, who were both in CSC’s fall production of The Mousetrap, will be switching from English to Irish accents for their portrayals of Johnnypateenmike and Mammy, respectively. Among Mr. Edwards Broadway credits, he also played both Max Bialystock and Roger DeBris in the First National Tour of The Producers. And audiences may recognize Ms. Huber from regionally performing with Paper Mill Playhouse as well as Pennsylvania Shakespeare. This production is privileged to also include a real-live Irishman, Mark Byrne, born and bred in Dublin playing the role of Babbybobby. Helen, Cripple Billy’s love interest, is Leah Barker. Ms. Barker studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and holds a BFA in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Catherine Rust (Long Valley) is pleased to be back on stage playing Aunt Eileen, and filling the role of Aunt Kate is Carolyn Popp (Jersey City), who has appeared on the Centenary Stage in The Tillie Project and Sister Week. When asked about her role in this production Ms. Popp said, “I'm so looking forward to this show because of the basic sense of community, dignity, and a will to survive - all with a healthy dose of good humor that pervades these stories. These are real people doing their best - I love them.” Also, returning to CSC’s stage, after performing in The Christmas Carol and Oliver, is Dave Scheffler (Easton, PA) playing the Doctor.

Set Design
The Sitnik Theatre is once again being transformed by Emmy Award-winning set designer Bob Phillips. Mr. Phillips also designed CSC’s productions of The Mousetrap, Light up the Sky, and The Ladies Man. He has designed over 75 sets for Orlando Shakespeare Festival and regularly works with Pennsylvania Shakespeare, Florida Studio Theatre, and many New York and regional theatres. Phillips’ television designs include Come on Over, Another World, Search for Tomorrow, and Sesame Street, where he has designed for 22 seasons.

Schedule
Performance times are Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. There are 2 p.m. matinees on Wednesdays February 27th and March 6th and for the Preview Performance on Friday, February 22nd at 2 p.m.

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About the David and Carol Lackland Center

Sitnik Theater of the    Lackland Performing Arts Center

The Centenary Stage Company has found its new home with construction the Carol and David Lackland Center (located at 715 Grand Ave, Hackettstown), completed in August, 2010. With a 22,000-square-foot performance space, the facility is the most sophisticated performing arts venues in northwest New Jersey. The center includes a new state-of-the-art 500-seat theatre (Sitnik Theater), a black box theater (The Edith Bolte Kutz ’42 Theater), a dance studio, scene shop, a costume shop, green room and dressing rooms. In addition to housing the theatre, the 68K square foot Lackland Center is home to a variety of cultural activity, and including WNTI, the College's listener-supported public radio station, CCTV, Centenary's Comcast-licensed television studio, and gallery space for visual artists.

Named in honor of Carol Burgess Lackland, A Centenary graduate (Class of 1954), and her husband, David A. Lackland, a Centenary College Trustee, The David and Carol Lackland Center, has been designed to enrich student life and bring new cultural opportunities to northwest New Jersey.             ...more (including photos, progress reports, and 'Tour Lackland with Carl')

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