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The Celtic Cross is coming to The Boxcar Theatre!
The Celtic Cross - a new play by Matthew Jackson - makes a stop in San Francisco as part of an International Tour.
Featuring:
Matthew Jackson and Bryan Sullivan
The Boxcar Studios
125 A Hyde St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
"The Celtic Cross is a beautiful, harrowing, captivating play with heartfelt, heartbreaking characters and the perfect mix of history, timeliness, and looking forward. In the tradition of so much good theater, Wanderweg's two-person traveling production feels grand and sweeping even as it hits so close to home."
- Laurie Frankel, Author ("Atlas of Love" and "Goodbye for Now")
9 out of 10! - News Leader Pictorial
"...what great acting is all about." - The Marble
"...captures the Irish wit." - Drama in the Hood
In Northern Ireland, two communities are at odds with each other. Their conflict is not only political, but ideological. The Protestant Loyalist side believes that Northern Ireland should remain part of the United Kingdom. The Catholic Nationalist side believes that Northern Ireland should become part of the Republic of Ireland. "The Troubles" refer to the thirty years of violence and terrorism between these two groups. Peace resolutions in the late 1990s attempted to bring an end to the sectarian violence, but the peace achieved is a shaky one.
The Celtic Cross is the story of the unlikely friendship that forms between Jacob and Thomas, two young men in Belfast, Northern Ireland; Jacob is a Protestant Loyalist and Thomas is a Catholic Nationalist. Set in the early 1990s, before the peace agreement, these two men have lived their entire life during "the Troubles." Although they are conditioned to hate each other, an improbable friendship unfolds, but their circumstances force them to choose between their friendship and their beliefs.
This powerful new drama explores what it means to be Protestant, Catholic, Irish, British, too powerful for your own good, but too weak to change anything. But at its deepest at its core the play shows these two characters in their struggle to find humanity; in their friend, in their enemy, but most importantly in themselves.
November 9th & 10th
All shows at 7:30pm
Contains Strong Language and Violence
$12 in advance
$15 at the door
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LocationThe Boxcar Studios (View)
125 A Hyde St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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| Minimum Age: 14 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
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