Events › Irish Voices: A Dramatic Performance with Stephen Collins

An hour-long dramatic performance of pieces of Irish writing by local actor and teacher Stephen Collins.

Many writers included in The Norton Anthology of English Literature were born in Ireland. The commonality, of course, is the English language but there are vast cultural differences, which will be explored in this performance. A great deal of Irish writing deals with the land, the past, the church, and the changing political landscape. Yeats, Joyce, Heaney, McCourt, and other prominent writers are represented in this dramatic offering.

Stephen Collins grew up in Cambridge and received a BA in Literature from UMass Boston. After twenty plus years in a sales career, he is back doing what he truly loves – performing and teaching. Recently he has been teaching seminars on Whitman, Hardy, Shakespeare, Frost, and Contemporary Poetry at various locations.

He also works as a professionally licensed tour guide doing narrated historical tours of Boston. His Whitman performances have taken him all over the country. He now has eight one-man shows and seven courses where his teaching style has been described as a hybrid between lecture and performance.

Registration is not requested for this program.

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