Eighth Blackbird: Olagón Preview

Please note that, while Paul Muldoon wrote the text for this adaptation, he will not be at the preview performance; he will be reading from his latest book on Thursday, December 7 at 7:00 PM.

 

Eighth Blackbird composer/fiddler Dan Trueman and Irish sean-nós singer Iarla Ó Lionaírd bring the 1,400-year­-old Irish legend Táin Bó Cúailnge roaring into modernity with Olagón. Set to a new epic text by Pulitzer Prize-­winning poet Paul Muldoon, this seventy-minute song cycle exposes a martini­-guzzling, pill-­popping Queen Medhbh set against her lovelorn King Ailill, and other lovers. This free program at Poetry Foundation features excerpts from the full-length show premiering later in December.

For information about additional performances, including the Chicago premiere, please visit olagon.org.