Arís Theatre, Atlanta's Stage for Celtic Culture, is proud to present its Second Annual Pantomime Preview at IrishFest of Aladdin by Karl Harper, directed by Kyle Crew. This hilarious family friendly show will take you on a wild ride across the seas, across time, across imaginations and beyond taste and subtlety to a world of songs and jokes and audience participation. It’s In Front Of You!!! See you all at IrishFest!

Description of Event:

Marilynn Richtarik’s book Getting to Good Friday intertwines literary analysis and narrative history in an accessible account of the shifts in thinking and talking about Northern Ireland’s divided society that brought thirty years of political violence to a close with the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. She describes literary reactions and contributions to the peace process during the fifteen years preceding the Agreement and in the immediate post-conflict era, demonstrating the extent to which authors were motivated by a desire both to comment on and to try to influence political developments. In this session, Professor Richtarik will introduce the book briefly and read an excerpt from the second chapter about the lead-up to the IRA ceasefire of August 1994 and Michael Longley’s poem “Ceasefire.”

About Marilynn

Marilynn Richtarik was educated at Harvard University, where she earned an undergraduate degree in American History and Literature, and at Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Her books include Acting Between the Lines: The Field Day Theatre Company and Irish Cultural Politics 1980–1984 (1994), Stewart Parker: A Life (2012), and Getting to Good Friday: Literature and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland (2023), all published by Oxford University Press, and an edition of Stewart Parker’s autobiographical novel Hopdance published in Dublin by The Lilliput Press in 2017. Richtarik is a Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where she teaches British, Irish, and world literature. She spent the first half of 2017 at Queen’s University Belfast as a US Fulbright Scholar.