Poster Illustration by Alana Evergreen
From the author of Doubt, John Patrick Shanley’s Tony-Award-nominated Outside Mullingar is a delightful, surprising, and achingly touching comedy set in rural Ireland.
Rosemary Muldoon and Anthony Reilly are middle-aged misfits whose families have harbored a land dispute for generations. With nothing much to do in their small, working class town, the two long for intimacy and fulfillment as they maintain their family farms.
The twist at the end of this cracklingly comic play adds an explosion of delight and endearment when Rosemary and Tony finally speak their truth.
Outside Mullingar is made possible with support from
Charlotte Rubin
Ellyn Bye
Ed & Anne Griffith
Jo Ann Hardy
at COHO Theatre
2257 NW Raleigh St
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2:00
Run Time: approx. 90 min
Recommended for ages 12 and up
Key Performance Dates
Thu, Apr 2nd at 7:30PM: Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Fri, Apr 3rd at 7:30 PM: Pay-What-You-Will Preview
Sat, Apr 4th at 7:30PM: Opening Night
Fri, Apr 17th at 7:30PM: ASL-Interpreted Performance
“John Patrick Shanley has not written a more beautiful or loving play"
-Marilyn Stasio for Variety
About the Playwright
John Patrick Shanley’s plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (2014 Tony Award® nomination for Best Play), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, Beggars in the House of Plenty, and his newest play Brooklyn Laundry will premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play, Doubt, he received both the 2005 Tony Award® for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. In the arena of screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of Doubt, with Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, which he also directed, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other films include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live From Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie). For his script of Moonstruck he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the Writers Guild of America awarded Mr. Shanley the Lifetime Achievement In Writing.
Creative Team
Holly Griffith
Director
Hayley Farrell
Stage Manager
Kyra Sanford
Scenic & Props Design
Kelly Terry
Lighting Design
Costume Design
Outside Mullingar Supporters
Season Sponsor: Ronni Lacroute
Production Sponsors: Charlotte Rubin and Ellyn Bye
Music Sponsor: Ed & Anne Griffith
“Thinking’s worse than February”
— from Outside Mullingar by John Patrick Shanley