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EASTER RISING: DUBLIN 1916

For one weekend only, California Stage Theater Company will honor Dublins fallen and celebrate its fighting spirit with Ray Tatars Easter Rising: Dublin 1916. This moving Readers Theater piece commemorates the 1916 Dublin uprising that sparked a revolution. Four performances will be given March 18th-20th.

Ray Tatars Easter Rising: Dublin 1916 takes audiences into the rough and tumble streets of Dublin during the infamous insurrection. Told from the diverse perspectives of the people who lived it--unsuspecting bystanders, a Priest dragged by duty into the fray, and young revolutionaries fighting for their freedomTatars evocative piece captures the hope, the fear, and the rage of a people swept up in revolt.

Easter Rising features live music and song by Tom Euritt, Shane Carpenter and Robert Scott with an all-star cast including Gay Cooper, Tom Witchie, Ovation Stages Penny Kline, James C. Anderson, Zachary Cales, Cynthia Drumbor, Scott Griffith and Mahlon Greenhalgh. The actors will who bring first-hand accounts of the Uprising to impassioned life. Author and California Stage Producing Artistic Director Ray Tatar directs.