Hold Your Tongue, Hold Your Dead comes to Boston!

ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage welcomes Global Arts Corps for a four-week residency that will culminate in a work-in-progress presentation of their latest production, Hold Your Tongue, Hold Your Dead. The public is welcome to this free peek at Global Arts’ newest work, with performances daily Sept. 25 – 28, 2013 at 7 p.m. in Emerson’s Semel Theatre (Tufte Performance Center, 10 Boylston Place). Reservations are recommended, but not required, at 617-824-8400.

This is a powerful new play about surviving a troubled past only to face the unknown of a fragile peace. Hold Your Tongue, Hold Your Dead takes an ironic look at young and old struggling to find a voice in a country where not talking about the past has become something of an art. Hold Your Tongue, Hold Your Dead is a collaborative effort with actors from both sides of Northern Ireland’s historic divide; fast-rising young Northern Irish playwright, Stacey Gregg; noted Irish Composer Jules Maxwell; and Global Arts founder/director Michael Lessac. Built from the actors’ stories and memories, the production explores the cost of celebrating ancestors while banning the past, and probes the silence that affects a young vibrant generation ready to move on. The play features original songs, which will be explored live by the composer and company at each workshop production.

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