A Live Show, a Pie, and Pint Anyone? Fergie’s Pub Is Bringing Back Their Popular Pop Up Play Series
If you love a good good beer but also live plays, then keep reading. Inis Nua Theatre Company is celebrating its 20th season by once again teaming up with Fergie’s Pub (1214 Sansom Street) to bring back the popular Pop Up Play in a Pub series.
The series kicks-off with 10 Dates with Mad Mary, by Irish-Pakistani playwright Yasmine Akram which will run from September 6th to 17th. This raucous one-woman show tells the story of Mary McArdle, a tough and troubled young woman trying to find a date for her best friend’s wedding. Once known as the best fighter in her hometown of Drogheda, ‘Mad Mary’ has emerged from prison slightly older and wiser–she’s the ripe old age of 25. She finds herself needing a date to her best friend’s wedding and enlists the help of a speed dating service to find one. At times foul-mouthed and aggressively funny, Mary embarks on a journey to find a date – and finds herself along the way. Mary is one of those girls with a talent for ruining whatever good things come her way, which lends the play big laughs and unexpected moments. 10 Dates will be directed by Inis Nua Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillan and stars Anna Faye Lieberman as Mad Mary.
Next, Inis Nua will present the American premiere of Madame Ovary, by English playwright Rosa Hesmondhalgh. This comic-drama begins on New Year’s Eve with Rosa, a young woman who’s ready to embark on a campaign of self-improvement in the new year. But when the unexpected happens–an advanced cancer diagnosis–Rosa has to re-evaluate priorities and her only goal becomes survival. Madame Ovary is directed by Philadelphia actor and director, Charlotte Northeast, and features Satchel Williams (Inis Nua’s 100 Words for Snow). The show runs November 8th-19th. .
Tickets for both shows are $32 and include a pie made by Stargazy on East Passyunk and a cold pint from the team behind the bar at Fergie’s Pub. Tickets are on sale by calling (215) 454-9776 or visiting inisnuatheatre.org. Current Wooder Ice IG subscribers will receive $10 off their purchase.
