Tagore plays coming to Dublin all the way from Goa, India

As you may be aware, the Irish Festival to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore's birth was launched in Dublin on Monday 17th October with the unveiling of a specially commissioned bust of Tagore (sent over from India) in St. Stephen's Green by the Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore and H.E. Shrimati Prennet Kaur, Minister of State for External Affairs of India. This was followed by a series of events (concerts, symposia, etc.) celebrating his work. He was the first Asian to be awarded The Nobel Prize for Literature and was greatly admired by W.B. Yeats who brought him to the attention of the Western literary world and was probably instrumental in having the world premiere of one of Tagore's many plays, The Post Office, staged at the Abbey Theatre in 1913, directed by Lennox Robinson.

The Da Vinci Theatre company's productions of The Post Office and Red Oleanders (two plays by Tagore, both in English) have been selected and travel funded by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in Delhi to formally close the Dublin Tagore Festival, his birth date being May 7th. The plays will be staged at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin in April 2012, details on the poster below!

I hope to see some of you there,

Sarah