The second floor of the Churchill, 45 East 28th St., in Manhattan, is the venue for an October Saturday afternoon reading of two plays — “Dublin Noir” by Honor Molloy and “The Long Day” by Joseph Goodrich.
“Dublin Noir,” on Oct. 28, at 2:30 p.m., will feature Henry Clarke*, Sean Gormley*, David Grimm* and Brenda Meaney*. It's August 1939. Europe’s boiling up to war. But Ireland’s having none of it. On a day trip to Drogheda, Dubliner Tadgh Steele is captured by a dairy farmer and locked in a cowshed. Is Tadgh a poet as he claims or a Nazi spy? Makes no difference to the farmer’s slop girl who falls in love with the handsome stranger and casts him as the hero of a “fil-um in her head.”
“The Long Day,” at 4:30, will feature Meaney, Grimm and Clarke.
In 1979 Hollywood, an aging, world-famous director battles ill health, changing times, and his own inner demons to come up with one more script for one more – one final? – film.
*Members of Actors Equity Association.
