A new SONG CYCLE by Michael Scott, based on the poetry of W.B Yeats, for opera singers, actors and Traditional musicians. The Seven Woods celebrated by Yeats are part of a nature trail taking in woods, river, turlough, bare limestone and Coole lake. Coole Park, now a nature reserve, was once the home of Lady Agusta Gregory, dramatist, folklorist and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre with William But
ler Yeats and Edward Martyn. Yeats, Shaw, Synge, and O'Casey among others all came to experience its magic; their initials are carved on the Autograph Tree. MICHAEL SCOTT is an independent international theatre director and producer and composer . He has written a number of plays and adaptations including DANCING AT THE BALLROOM OF ROMANCE, THE WELL OF STORIES/TOBAR NA SCEALTA, SONGS OF LEAVING (Both for the National Folk Theatre Siamsa), SONGS BY THE RIVER (Duchas Trim). Six original childrens’ plays with Eurovision Winner Shay Healy,
Adaptations -
THE HOSTAGE/An Giiall With Niall Tobin. DRACULA,
FRAGMENTS OF ISABELLA with Gabrielle Reidy
THE YELLOW MAN, with Brian Thunder
His most recent play ONE is part 1 of a trilogy – 1 2 3 and was presented as part of the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival where it won an award for best new writing. Since 1984 he has also been writing music for the Theatre and Dance – his most celebrated musical work has been his chamber operas based on the plays PURGATORY and THE DREAMING OF THE BONES by W.B Yeats –
His reinvestigations of the works of W.B.Yeats are celebrated, his production of THE CUCHULAIN CYCLE has been described “as the most vigorously dramatic presentation of Yeats seen in four decades. Michael received his theatre training in Europe and has been Theatre Director of the Project Arts Centre, Program Director of the Dublin Theatre Festival and Director of the Tivoli Theatre Dublin and the RHA Downstairs. He is Artistic Director of the City Theatre Dublin. His Productions have been seen in Ireland, England, Germany, USA, Iceland, Wales, Scotland and France. Currently he is writing a song cycle of based on the Poetry of W.B Yeats SONGS FROM THE SWANS AT COOLE.
