![]() This musical adaptation is the first original musical in eight years to be developed by Irish Repertory Theatre. A 1997 film adaptation was directed by Neil Jordan and starred Fiona Shaw, Stephen Rea, and Sinéad O’Connor. Published in 1992, the novel was hailed as a modern classic and has remained in the Irish consciousness for decades. The Butcher Boy is Patrick McCabe’s shattering masterpiece. When he cannot fight the dark forces any longer, the story spins to a catastrophic conclusion. Nugent denounces the Brady family as “pigs,” a violent obsession enters Francie’s world and only builds as the life he loves crumbles around him. Growing up in a narrow-minded Irish village in the 1960s, young Francie Brady lives in a comic book dreamland with his parents and best friend Joe, but all that ends when the Nugents – mother and son – move to town. Nugent.” - Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy ![]() “ When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago, I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. ![]() “ Good lord is it thrilling…a breakout performance that gives himself over to completely” – IrishCentral “Muldoon has created a buoyantly engaging musical… miraculous… Barasch is a young talent with a formidably bright future ” - Charles Isherwood, The Wall Street Journal ![]() With David Baida, Nicholas Barasch, Carey Rebecca Brown, Joe Cassidy, Kerry Conte, Andrea Lynn Green, Daniel Marconi, Polly McKie, Michele Ragusa, Scott Stangland, Christian Strange, and Teddy Trice ![]()
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