The Smuggler: A Thriller In Verse
The Smuggler: A Thriller In Verse
By Ronán Noone
Directed by David M. Jenkins
May 15 – Jun. 9, 2024
Shimberg Playhouse, Straz Center
Single tickets start at $44.50.
Preview tickets start at $25.
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What It's About
One part Breaking Bad and one part Beowulf — shaken, not stirred — The Smuggler is a ripping modern yarn of corruption, morality, and giant basement-dwelling rats that asks what price is ultimately paid for the American Dream. When Irish immigrant Tim Finnegan’s child falls ill and he loses his job, he’s sucked into a dark world that exists only in the shadows of the wealthy island of Amity.
Tim wants to be a writer but struggles to find his path. That all changes when a stranger arrives with a plan to make people “disappear and reappear.” In this mischievous, one-man, rhyming-verse dark comedy, Tim learns the price he must pay to become a citizen. Step into his secret speakeasy to hear a twisty story with unsavory characters and shady shenanigans.
Artistic Associate Giles Davies is regarded by most as one of this region’s finest actors. Audiences may recall his highly acclaimed run of this show in Sarasota at Urbanite Theatre. Tampa Bay area audiences can look forward to an updated text including a slightly different ending, fresh from the playwright!
The tale Tim tells is raw and raucous—part “Sopranos,” part Archie Bunker—and Noone has plenty to say about immigration, the American caste system, and the American Dream. – The New Yorker
Captivating! I sat horrified and charmed, watching Davies smoothly wrap us in his web of deceit and crime. – Sarasota Herald-Tribune
A masterful performance … A level of excellence we rarely have the chance to witness in person – Bradenton Times
About The Playwright
Ronan Noone believes in playing with a myriad of elements to find the right way to tell a good story; a necessary story that tells us who we are, where we have been, and where we are going. He believes in stories that resonate beyond the theatre’s door and that add ideas to the national conversation. He believes in the playwright as thinker traveling in the direction of their fear. His play The Smuggler won the Best Playwright award at the 1st Irish Festival of New York, (2019) . The Second Girl was the inaugural winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Playwriting Award (2015) and an Edgerton Award winner in 2014. Additional plays include, Thirst, The Atheist; Brendan; Scenes from an Adultery; The Lepers of Baile Baiste, The Blowin of Baile Gall, The Gigolo of Baile Breag (The Baile Trilogy); The Compass Rose; Little Black Dress; and A Small Death. The Atheist played at the Huntington Theatre Company, Boston, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. It also was co-produced by The Culture Project and Ted Mann’s Circle in the Square productions in New York, and received both Drama Desk and Drama League acting nominations.
Other recent international productions have taken place in the UK (London and Edinburgh), Spain, India, Canada, the Philippines, and Ireland. Awards include Jeff recommendations in Chicago; Helen Hayes recommendations in Washington, D.C.; Ovation recommendations in Los Angeles; Critics Award in Austin, Texas; American Critics Steinberg New Play Award nomination; nomination for best play at 1st Irish Festival New York 2013 and 2015; three Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Awards for Best New Play; the Boston Theatre Critics Association’s Elliot Norton Outstanding Script Award; The Kennedy Center Michael Kanin National Playwriting Award; a 2014 Edgerton New American Play Award, and a finalist for the ScreenCraft Stage Play Award (2020). Other plays have been featured in books on Irish studies, such as Anail an Bheil Bheo: Orality and Modern Irish Culture and Sinead Moynihan’s Other People’s Diasporas.
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Cast & Crew
- David M. Jenkins – Director
- Michael Horn – Technical Director
- Jeremy Douglass – Stage Manager
Cast
- Giles Davies – Tim Finnegan
Crew
- Lauren Agans-Dominguez – Technical Apprentice
- Jo Averill-Snell – Light Design
- Teah Banks – Properties
- Jeremy Douglass – Composition
- Michael Horn – Set Design
- Skylar Jay – Scenic Artist
- Katrina Stevenson – Costume Design
Production
- David M. Jenkins – Producing Artistic Director
- Greg Newcomb – Key Art
- Shawn Paonessa – Online Producer
- Jena Rashid – Producing Associate
- Nicole Jeannine Smith – Producing Associate