The Last Days of Cleopatra Event

Cleopatra is all about love, as in where do you find it? How do you keep it? what does it feel like? How do you know?

“Forgiveness, funny one that, someone kicks you in the head and you’re supposed to forgive them, cos that’ll make ye feel better, make it all go away, make everything Hunky-Dory! But what happens them? Get out a Jail Free card, move on, no bother, SmileyFace… You’re just Roadkill, What? But here, how d’ye forgive yourself… if ye can’t… forget?”
“Cleopatra is unstinting…The actors are splendid, vivid, vibrant…so is this play” ***** – NY Times Critics Pick
“Stunningly beautiful”– Theatermania
“An evocative depiction of fraying family ties… Plenty of punch in it’s sore bruised arms” – TIMEOUT
“Unruly, BRILLIANT…” IrishCentral.com
“Set at a rollercoaster pace, that sweeps the audience along on it’s emotional ride” – Irisharts
“A modern Sean O’ Casey, you laugh all the way through and are shattered at the end” – CriticsBlog.com

Directed by Alan King

Cast and Creatives

Laoisa Sexton

Writer

Alan King

Director

Rúaidhrí Conroy

Cast

Ger Carey

Cast

Gerard Adlum

Cast

Laoisa Sexton

Cast

Reviews

LEDWIDGE

TOUR DATES 2017

The Lyric Theatre, Belfast – March 17th/18th – BOOK TICKETS
Theatre Royal, Waterford – March 22nd – BOOK TICKETS
St. John’s Theatre, Listowel – March 24th – Booking info
Friarsgate Theatre, Kilmallock – March 25th – Booking info
Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny – March 29th BOOK TICKETS
Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge – March 30th – BOOK TICKETS
Solstice Arts Centre, Navan – April 6th – BOOK TICKETS
The Source Arts Centre, Thurles – April 7th BOOK TICKETS
The Pavilion Theatre, Dún Laoghaire – April 8th – BOOK TICKETS

“Laoisa Sexton depicts the city’s working class but across genders and generations…Cleopatra is unstinting with it’s often hilariously ribald Dublin idioms… the actors are splendid: vivid, vibrant, so is this play by a promising writer”
-- NY TIMES Critics' Pick
**** “An evocative depiction of fraying family ties… Plenty of punch in it’s sore bruised arms”
-- TIMEOUT NY
**** “A loud profane ultimately touching look at a down and out Irish family…as abrasive and self-deluded as they are, their pain and everyday struggles resonate filling the theater
with emotions that come fast and thick…temporary relief comes in addictive behavior, promiscuity, alcohol and living in the past”
-- THEATER PIZZAZZ
*** “Sexton has a gift for capturing the vernacular onstage in a way that sounds simultaneously sublime and authentic… stunningly beautiful”
-- THEATER MANIA
**** “Sexton rescues us from the calcified portraits of ourselves that we’ve been subjected to for years.
The Last Days of Cleopatra is unruly…brilliant…it’s a cause for amazement that a play this incendiary and implicating has been written at all. If you only see one Irish play this year, this is the one”
-- Irish Central.com
***** “A rollercoaster pace that doesn’t let up and sweeps the audience along on it’s emotional ride…Like some of the current TV offerings and films that show the less picturesque sides of the Emerald Isle, there is a grittiness and reality that hits home… Sexton is a truly promising new playwright and we look forward to the sincerity of her future work”
-- NYIRISHARTS.COM
“It’s classical Irish tragicomedy in the spirit of a modern Sean O’ Casey, you laugh all the way through and are shattered at the end”
-- IRISHBLOG