Philadelphia, Here I Come! at T. Schreiber Studio

In the poignant tragicomedy of emigration and exile that is Philadelphia, Here I Come!, an Irishman spends one last night in his home of Ballybeg before departing for the shores of the United States. As he goes about his small-town rituals for the final time, the moody Gar O'Donnell engages with his rambunctious alter ego, a constant stage presence bent on adventure and fantasy. But in Gar's true heart lies a tender ache for the people he is leaving behind, including the girl he loved and lost and his widowed father, who is unable to express his true feelings about his son's departure. In turns tender, mischievous, comedic and melancholic, Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come! is as moving and powerful as the day it premiered in 1964.