Articles about Girl from the North Country
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The music they listen to, and that which seeps from them with aching melancholy, is by Bob Dylan " written decades after the Great Depression ended. Combined with Conor McPherson's earthy, C…
Minnesota, 1934. Following the Wall Street crash of 1929 America entered the Great Depression. The winters in the four years after were harsh and hit Americans hard, with more out of work, h…
Watch Sheila Atim perform Bob Dylan's 'Tight Connection to My Heart' in Girl From the North Country
Conor McPherson's play with many Bob Dylan songs set in hiis birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota
Old Vic; Dorfman; Apollo, LondonConor McPherson weaves magic with Bob Dylan's songs, Olivias Colman and Williams ignite Lucy Kirkwood's new play, and Sienna Miller's Cat fails to sizzleKnock…
Stuff " just " happens: Miriam Gillinson reviews Conor McPherson's new play based around Bob Dylan songs.
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It's a busy play, packed full of sorrow and soul, rueful realism and tentative hope, and is blessed by a crack cast filled with the likes of Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Ron Cook, Deb…
Let's be clear this is not a "Bob Dylan musical”. Girl from the North Country might feature songs from the Nobel Prize-winning, singer-songwriter’s extensive catalogue,
By Julian Eaves
Not for nothing does the audience rise to its feet at the end of the performance. Because, it knows, it has not met any strangers during the performance. It has met itself.
T…
The world premiere opened at London's Old Vic July 26.
Conor McPherson was approached by Bob Dylan's team to concoct a project round the songbook - the resulting play set in Depression-era Minnesota, conjures up the world from which Dylan&a…
Now playing on London's West End, these three new plays and one "Bat Out of Hell" seem destined for the bright lights of New York City.
"Bob Dylan: the Musical," or something more sophisticated? Picking his way through the legendary songwriter's back catalogue, Irish playwright Conor McPherson has come up with a portrait of …
With songs by Bob Dylan, Conor McPherson's show touches on the hardships of the Great Depression
The Old Vic presents the World Premiere of Girl From the North Country, an electrifying new work written and directed by Conor McPherson along with classic songs from Bob Dylan. Girl from th…
Conor McPherson's latest work is set in Bob Dylan's hometown of Duluth, Minnesota and weaves the Nobel Prize winner's songs into a tale of the Great Depression
Defiantly rejecting the standard jukebox model, Conor McPherson's much-anticipated new work mining the back catalogue of Bob Dylan is labelled 'a play with songs' - or perhaps that should be…
The production, with music from Bob Dylan, stars Ciarán Hinds and Shirley Henderson
Bob Dylan's songs provide the backdrop to 'Girl From the North Country,' a freewheeling Depression-era musical from 'The Weir' creator Conor McPherson.read more
Written and directed by Conor McPherson this new piece places Bob Dylan's music into a story set during the Great Depression
BOB AND CONOR: A NEW DIRECTION HOME… Bob Dylan songs – from each of six decades – woven into a musical by Conor McPherson? At Dylan's own suggestion? What? But he…
The Irish playwright Conor McPherson weaves an American tale of nomads out of the Bob Dylan songbook in this play at the Old Vic Theater in London.
Old Vic, LondonA superb cast use Bob's back catalogue to glorious effect in Conor McPherson's astonishing cross-section of hope and stoic suffering in Depression-era MinnesotaThis is the sec…
How exactly would one go about staging a Bob Dylan musical? Conor McPherson, a man who knows a thing or two about
Conor McPherson meets Bob Dylan in the Depression-era dustbowl with disconnected resultsPlays with songs in, or more precisely plays with famous songs in, can feel like the uncanny valley of…
