Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Siren’s Songs: The Women Of Joyce

Tuesday, February 19 & 26 @ 7:30 pm

We are delighted to welcome back the talented Laura Leininger-Campbell and LB Buchelt in an original production they created and perform, Sirens’ Songs: The Women of Joyce. It’s a lyrically beautiful work that weaves James Joyce’s fictional female characters with letters to his life-long lover and longtime wife, Nora. Passionate, funny, poignant, it really feels like an intimate encounter with Joyce himself. Laura and LB are just superb.
There will be a post-performance Q & A.
Note: Adult Language

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Irish Whiskey-Tasting & Storytelling

February 21 & 28 @ 7:30 pm

This offering will combine Irish whiskey-tasting with lively tales about the background of the old Irish distilleries and first-person accounts of Irish pub adventures. We’re really fortunate in the hosts of this: siblings Pegeen Reilly, a certified Irish whiskey sommelier, and brother Hugh Reilly, an author who will share stories from his book, Drinking with My Father’s Ghost: A Journey through Ireland’s Pubs. Their father, Bob Reilly, a grandson of Ireland, was BSB’s first Irish cultural advisor, and for many years was my stalwart and patient educator for many of our Irish productions. Anytime we can feature part of this clan on our stage, it’s a great celebration.

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Siren’s Songs: The Women Of Joyce

Tuesday, February 19 & 26 @ 7:30 pm

We are delighted to welcome back the talented Laura Leininger-Campbell and LB Buchelt in an original production they created and perform, Sirens’ Songs: The Women of Joyce. It’s a lyrically beautiful work that weaves James Joyce’s fictional female characters with letters to his life-long lover and longtime wife, Nora. Passionate, funny, poignant, it really feels like an intimate encounter with Joyce himself. Laura and LB are just superb.
There will be a post-performance Q & A.
Note: Adult Language

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Irish Whiskey-Tasting & Storytelling

February 21 & 28 @ 7:30 pm

This offering will combine Irish whiskey-tasting with lively tales about the background of the old Irish distilleries and first-person accounts of Irish pub adventures. We’re really fortunate in the hosts of this: siblings Pegeen Reilly, a certified Irish whiskey sommelier, and brother Hugh Reilly, an author who will share stories from his book, Drinking with My Father’s Ghost: A Journey through Ireland’s Pubs. Their father, Bob Reilly, a grandson of Ireland, was BSB’s first Irish cultural advisor, and for many years was my stalwart and patient educator for many of our Irish productions. Anytime we can feature part of this clan on our stage, it’s a great celebration.

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney

Brigit Saint Brigit presents
Bold Girls

February 22 – March 10, 2019
Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30 PM | Sundays @ 2:00 PM

COST: $30 General Admission
$25 Student/65+/Military
Purchase tickets at https://www.bsbtheatre.com/boldgirls

Who is the young girl at end of the lane? A ghost, or only ghostly?  And what has she to do with the lives of the three women, IRA “war widows,” on whose doorstep she arrives, one rainy evening in 1990 in West Belfast?
Beginning the play with the appearance of this “eerie wraith and threatening interloper”–the teenaged Deirdre–writer Rona Munro mines the gold of Irish storytelling doubly by abruptly shifting the scene to the daily chaos of a small kitchen “piled with ironing . . . damp sheets waiting for a break in the Belfast drizzle . . . pots and pans and steam and the kettle always hot for tea.” Presided over with the robust energy and wry humor of Marie and across-the-hall, mother/daughter neighbors Cassie and Nora, we’re welcomed in by the familiarity of quick wit and the “boldness” of people who have little to celebrate, but celebrate anyway.
They’re hurrying to get to a stopping point in the work so they can treat themselves to a night out at the club, a rare occasion for death-widowed or prison-widowed single-mothers. Nora, too, has lost husband and son.  The sound and flash of bullets and grenades outside their windows, up and down their streets, remind us that “the Troubles” rage.  As for the women, it’s part of the everydayness of their lives–their discussion of the commotion up the street is simply about planning an alternative route to arrive at their destination.
Suddenly, a banging at the door.  Enter Deirdre, a strangely silent, almost accusing look about her, a white dress clinging to her small frame, drenched by the rain.  And what Marie thought had been a specter, a “ghost” she’d lately been catching fleeting glimpses of, staring through her window or at her front door from the street, is all too real.
Inexplicably to Cassie and Nora, Marie lets her in, gives her tea, dry clothes–accepted without comment or thanks.  Convinced she’s a grifter, Cassie soon bundles her off, and they leave for their night of craic. But the unease Deidre leaves behind grows into a haunting, the night takes on a sinister hue, loneliness and betrayal press in.  And Deirdre is everpresent. None of them one will be the same tomorrow.
Weaving with threads from both the Celtic supernatural and the contemporary psychological, Munro creates a spellbinding story, fired with passion, humor, and the mysteries of the heart.
Directed by Cathy Kurz, stage managed by Sabrina Kinney