Stories from a Friel Place

Actor Ingrid Craigie in conversation about the stories behind the staged stories.

In a short pre- show talk one of Ireland’s leading actors Ingrid Craigie recounts her experience of performing in the masterpieces of Brian Friel: Aristocrats, Wonderful Tennessee, Dancing at Lughnasa and Faith Healer.

Tuesday July 5th 6.30pm and Wednesday July 13th at 6.30pm

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Ingrid Craigie

Gate Theatre: Celebration (BPM Festival), Arcadia, Faith Healer (Sydney Festival 2009, Edinburgh International Festival 2009, Gate Theatre 2009 and 2010), The Deep Blue Sea, The Recruiting Officer (Best Actress, Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards), Blithe Spirit, premiere of The Mask of Moriarty by Hugh Leonard, Heartbreak House, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Collection with Harold Pinter, Pinter Festival; Lady Windermere’s Fan, Faith Healer, directed by Jonathan Kent with Ralph Fiennes and Ian McDiarmid (nominated Best Actress Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards); Play, Beckett Festival, Barbican, London.

Other Theatre: Ingrid read English at Trinity College Dublin before joining the Abbey company, where many appearances included Our Town, premiere of Talbot’s Box by Thomas Kilroy, premiere of Aristocrats by Brian Friel, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Glass Menagerie and the premiere of A Life by Hugh Leonard. Splendour, Boston Marriage, Copenhagen (all of which she was nominated Best Actress Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards) Project; premiere of Crave by Sarah Kane, Edinburgh Festival and Royal Court London; The Weir, Centaur, Montreal; premiere of Hugh Leonard’s Love in the Title, Abbey and San Jose; premiere of Brian Friel’s Wonderful Tennessee, Abbey and Broadway and most recently US tour of Cripple of Inishmaan with Druid. Narrator: Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, RTE Concert Orchestra, NCH; Narrator: Clara and Robert, Opera Theatre Company. Co-director: Mono-opera The Diary of Anne Frank by Grigory Frid for Opera Theatre Company.

In 2007 she received the Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards and the inaugural Alumni Award from Trinity College Dublin, for her contribution to Irish Theatre.

Film / Television include: BAFTA award winning The Ballroom of Romance and Ballykissangel; The Dead directed by John Huston, Da and Circle of Friends.