The Irish Players of Rochester is a program of the Rochester Community Players.  Since 1997, the Irish Players have presented plays of particular interest for those who love Irish theater.

We have concluded our local run of Love in the Title, by Hugh Leonard.  We have one more scheduled performance: Saturday afternoon. May 16 in Winnipeg!  Love in the Title will be RCP's Irish Players of Rochester production at the 2009 Acting Irish International Theatre Festival in Winnipeg.

Congratulations to Mitzi Collins, the winner of our raffle gift basket held during the run of Love in the Title.

The story: If you could meet your mother as a young woman, what would you say? What was your grandmother really like when she was 20?  37 year old Katie, a novelist whose books always contain the word 'love' in their title, finds out when she bicycles to a quite Limerick meadow to picnic and paint, only to meet her mother and grandmother, who are "living" in their own eras.  The play is set in 1999, but Cat, the 20 year old grandmother, is "living" in 1932.  A free spirit, she shocks her daughter (and Katie's mother), Triona, a prim 30 year old housewife "living" in 1964.  With the generations reversed, daughter, mother and grandmother confront each other, the edgy collisions softened by playwright Hugh Leonard's wit and humor.

Cast list for Love in the Title:

Katie: Judy Molner (left)
Triona: Rebecca Spindler (right)
Cat: Lorelei Mellon (center)

(Picture by Chris Nimick)

Director:
Jean Ryon. 
Set Design:
Ken Dauer. 
Light design:
Chris Nimick

RCP's Irish Players will participate in the 16th Annual Acting Irish International Theater Festival May 11-16, 2009, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.  Our production of Love in the Title will be performed Saturday afternoon, May 16. More information on our AIITF page. 

The Irish Players of Rochester program is a member of the Acting Irish International Theater Festival (AIITF) and will host the Festival in May 2008 (See Acting Irish page.)  For links to other members of the AIITF, please see our links page.