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Solas Nua ("new light" in Irish) is a Washington, D.C.-based Irish contemporary arts organization, founded in 2005. Its first event was a production of the play Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh. While it is best known for its theater offerings, Solas Nua also presents programming in areas including film, music, visual arts and literature. The organization puts special emphasis on promoting recent work by up-and-coming Irish artists.

Past theater productions

In its 2008–09 season Solas Nua performed Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh at 59E59 in New York City as part of the first Irish Theater Festival. Solas Nua produced this play again in D.C. in their 2009–10 season. In the 2008–09 season Linda Murray directed Gerald Murphy's Take Me Away and Des Kennedy directed the American premiere of Marina Carr's Woman and Scarecrow. Solas Nua also produced a series of readings of 11 plays commissioned by Belfast theater company Tinderbox.

In Solas Nua's 2009–10 season they presented David Ireland's Everything Between Us in D.C., Buffalo and Philadelphia. They also produced Rosemary Jenkinson's Johnny Meister and the Stitch.

2010–11 events included Swampoodle by Tom Swift. This place-based performance was created in collaboration with Ireland's Performance Corporation at the U-Line Arena. Solas Nua also presented John Paul Murphy's The Prophet of Monto, and Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter's musical Improbable Frequency.

In 2012–13 Solas Nua commissioned and performed Bradley O’Gill and the Little People by Tom Swift.

In 2014 Solas Nua began play-reading series in Washington, D.C. and in Boston.

Other Solas Nua activities

Regular events include a film screening series called Irish Popcorn! Solas Nua also presents Irish films at their annual Capital Irish Film Festival. Each year Solas Nua gives away thousands of Irish books on their Irish Book Day (March 17). In 2014 Solas Nua collaborated with Irish literary magazine The Stinging Fly to create an original Irish Book Day publication for the first time. What's the Story? included short stories and poems by authors including Kevin Barry.

References

1. "Solas Nua - About". solasnua.org.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
2. "Capital Irish Film Festival". Solas Nua. Retrieved 2020-06-29.
3. Meade, Declan. "What's the Story, Declan Meade?". solasnua.org. Solas Nua. Retrieved 11 September 2014.

External links

• Solas Nua Website
• Solas Nua Facebook
• Solas Nua Twitter
• Solas Nua Instagram
• Solas Nua YouTube

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