Da

Honored with numorous awards, this thoroughly beguiling play is about a son's need to come to terms with his father and himself, paternity, adolescence, the varieties of familial love and the tricks and distortions of memory. Charlie returns to Dublin to attend his father's funeral

While sorting through Da's papers he is confronted by Da's ghost, who tenaciously inhabits the room and Charlie's mind. The play moves from past to present, from reality to reminiscence to imagined conversations encompassing traumatic moments and the illusions collected to survive

Da had a full, happy life while Charlie is burdened with pessimism. Despite ambivalent feelings towards Da, Charlie comes to admire and love the old man. Tony Award, Best Play of 1978. N.Y. Drama Critic's Circle Award. Drama Desk Award. Outer Critic's Award

"Irish Repertory uncorks a classic surrounded with magic" ~ N.Y.Post

"Nearly twenty years after sweeping Broadway's major awards, Da should have resonance for a new audience....Boomers are sure to find more than one instance in which the lives of the characters touch their own" ~ Variety

"A humane and honest memory play with great affection and humor.... It will make you laugh and should make you cry" ~ N.Y. Times

"Wonderful, witty and wise.... A lovely play" ~ N.Y. Post