Saturday, July 31st after the matinee
MEET THE DESIGNERS
Director Jonathan Bank and Members of the Design Team
Learn how theatre designers bring a script
to life! Get a glimpse at what goes on
behind the scenes, before rehearsals start
and beyond, when the designers of Wife
to James Whelan discuss their creative
process.

Sunday, August 1st after the matinee
MY TRIP TO IRELAND
Director Jonathan Bank
Jonathan Bank shares stories from his recent
trip to Ireland, where he met with members
of the Deevy family and visited Landscape,
the Deevy home for generations. Teresa
wrote many of her plays at Landscape,
where her papers are now housed.

Wednesday, August 4th after the performance
Q & A WITH THE CAST
Meet the cast as they answer your questions
about the play.

Saturday, August 7th after the matinee
CHARTING THE AIRWAVES
Professor Eileen Morgan-Zayachek,
SUNY Oneonta
Professor Eileen Morgan-Zayachek places
Deevy’s radio plays within the context
of Irish radio’s growth prior to World
War II. In the 1930’s and early 40’s,
Irish broadcasting was underdeveloped
and many writers looked down on radio
drama. Thanks to pioneers like Deevy and
intrepid broadcasters, attitudes changed.
Eileen Morgan-Zayachek is Chair
of English and Associate Professor at SUNY
Oneonta. She has written extensively on
Irish radio during the 1930’s and 40’s and
is co-editor of A Century of Irish Drama:
Widening the Stage.

Sunday, August 8th after the matinee
IRELAND’S NATIONAL THEATER
Professor John P. Harrington,
Fordham University
After the death of its co-founder W.B. Yeats
in 1939, the Abbey — Ireland’s national
theater — underwent many changes.
Professor John P. Harrington discusses the
transitory state of the Abbey during the late
1930’s and 40’s, which was also around
the time Wife to James Whelan was rejected.
John P. Harrington is the author of
The Irish Beckett, The Irish Play on the New
York Stage and The Life of a Neighborhood
Playhouse on Grand Street and editor
of the Norton anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Irish Drama and Irish Theater
in America.

Wednesday, August 11th after the performance

HAPPILY EVER AFTER?
Members of the Cast and Director Jonathan Bank
An alternate ending to Wife to James
Whelan exists, though it’s unclear if it was
ever used or if Teresa Deevy even wrote it.
Tonight, in a truly rare event, see members
of cast read this intriguing “other” ending—
and find out what might have been!
Followed by a Q&A with cast and director.

Saturday, August 14th after the matinee

TERESA DEEVY IN CONTEXT
Professor Maureen O. Murphy,
Hofstra University
Professor Maureen O. Murphy contextualizes
Deevy’s work as a woman writer of the
1930’s and 1940’s.
Maureen O. Murphy was senior editor
for the Dictionary of Irish Biography and is
currently writing a biography of Asenath
Nicholson. She is Professor of Curriculum
and Teaching in the School of Education,
Health, and Human Services at Hofstra
University.

Sunday, September 12th after the matinee
MY TRIP TO IRELAND
Director Jonathan Bank
Jonathan Bank shares stories from his recent
trip to Ireland, where he met with members
of the Deevy family and visited Landscape,
the Deevy home for generations. Teresa
wrote many of her plays at Landscape,
where her papers are now housed.

Wednesday, September 22nd
THE POLITICAL DEEVY
Mary Caulfield, Trinity College, Dublin
Deevy came of age during the years of revolution in Ireland and was active politically; where did she stand?

Mary Caulfield's Ph.D. thesis is on the unpublished plays of activist, Constance Markievicz, whom Deevy admired.

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