In approximately 5 days our lovely cast will be in the Town Hall Studio, on stage, performing this epic play! Our massive thanks today go out to Sharon Nolan, Rory Kitt and Abel Garcia Cortina for their donations. We are on the home stretch! Adrenaline is rampant!
Boys and Girls we are 6 sleeps from Opening Night! Please keep up your support for our tour so we can bring the best possible show to you. We are getting closer and closer to our target. Help push us over the finish line!
Thanks to Elise Karlsson, John McManus, Leo Quinlan, Laura Hicks, Kori Kilduff and Patricia and Peter Roche we are almost two-thirds on the way now. Check out our Gifts and Rewards to see what our funders have treated themselves to! Gifts include tickets and ThereisBear! Souvenirs.
Thank you to Sarah Hoban, Aoife Spillane-Hinks, Amanda Gareis and Richard Brown, whose help took us over the €800 mark. The fundraising campaign is half over but we have lots left to do! Keep you support up by liking and sharing our blog!
ThereisBear! is pleased to present our fabulous poster for Angels in America, featuring Claudia O’Sullivan, Photography by Conor Kennedy-Burke and design by Conor Hooper.
Thanks to Sarah O’Toole we are almost at 40% funded! Thank you to all our supporters. Check out our Gifts and Rewards here.
Thanks to Oisin Robbins, Pat and Joan Hehir, Fellow Bear Sam O’Fearrai and his father Frankie, we are all the way up to 37%! This was a big push so massive thanks go out to all our funders. Keep sharing our Campaign Video and Blog 😀
23% and 23 days to go! A flurry of activity in the last day and half. Many thanks to Enda Clarke and Paul O’Mahony for their kind donations. This ball is really rolling now!
14%
Keep ’em coming!
With the help of Eimear Durnin, Aine Cahalan and Matt McDougal we have hit 14% Matt McDougal is our first donor from outside of Ireland. I hope the first of many. Thanks Matt for getting the international ball rolling!
Huge thanks are due to Jennifer Ahern, Roisin Eyres, Meghan Smyth, Mairead Scahill and Emmet Byrne, who have helped us over the €200 hump and into double-figured-percentage-points.
Only 25 days left so please keep you support strong!
26 Days to Opening Night.
Please Like and Share our Campaign Video and I will love you forever, whereas now I can only commit to loving you for the foreseeable future.
€60/€2000
We are 3% Funded!
Thank you for your support.
A huge thank you to Eddie Mullarkey and Martin Kenny who became our First Funders today.
Eddie and Martin have helped get this project off the ground. Together they have taken us past 3% of our target!
Not bad for day one, eh?
Please Watch and Share our awesome Campaign Video. The bulk of the video was shot in ONE TAKE by Brian O’Brien and sees the characters of Angels in America at home and at work. Worlds collide as dreams mingle with reality!
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America directed by ThereisBear’s Darragh O’Brien.
Touring this summer from May 27th to June 13th with your help!
Check out the Funding page and give what you can!
Locations: Galway, Athlone, Dublin.
Filmed and edited by Brien O’Brien, lighting by Susan Collins
Special thanks to Emily Murray for emergency assistance!
Click Here to see our Gifts for All Funders!
Angels in America is the story of two couples living in New York at the end of the 20th Century.
Prior and Louis have to deal with the disastrous news of a HIV diagnoses which threatens their relationship and puts things in perspective during the height of the AIDS crisis. Louis strains to keep his wits as his lover gets sicker, while Prior hides his pain with dry humour.
Joe and Harper’s faith is tested as their marital problems come to a head. Joe struggles to remain faithful to his religion, and to his wife, as he wars with the fearful questioning of his own sexuality. Harper, unhappy and addicted to Valium, grows increasingly aware that all is not as it seems with her husband.
Both couples live in a world of corruption, politics, religion, fear of illness, and of being alone.
And it is a world that seems to be coming apart around them as Harper and Prior slip through the boundaries of their own dreams and hallucinations.
This will be ThereisBear’s third production and our second tour. Last summer we toured Patrick Galvin’s ‘The Last Burning’ to six locations nationwide, and in January we brought Edward Albee’s ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ to Druid Lane Theatre in Galway, both generating excellent reviews.
Angels in America has received critical acclaim and won numerous awards since its premiere in 1991, courting controversy amongst conservatives as well as praise from all corners. We recognise this play’s importance, as well as its connections with our own recent past, and we want to bring it to Irish audiences with as high a standard as possible.
We are asking for you to help fund this summer’s tour. The money raised will go towards transport, advertising in papers as well as posters and flyers, venue hire, and other production costs such as set and technical equipment. Any donation, no matter the size, will be gratefully received and put to good use. Every euro makes a difference, and will help our small company take this production from being good, to great.
Thanks from all of us at ThereisBear! -we hope to see you this summer.
€5- Feather: A signed programme, your name on the programme and a special thanks online.
€10- Halo: A signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme, and a special thanks online.
€15- Messenger: A ticket to any of our shows, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme, and a special thanks online.
€30- Cherub: An invitation to our after show party, a signed poster, 2 tickets to any of our shows, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme and a special thanks online.
€50- Seraph: A SPECIAL MENTION in our programme, 4 tickets to any of our shows, an invitation to our after show party, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme and a special thanks online.
€100- Celestial Choir: An exclusive photo with the cast, an annotated script, a mention before every show, a SPECIAL MENTION in our programme, 4 tickets to any of our shows, an invitation to our after show party, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme and a special thanks online.
€150- Guardian Angel: A backstage pass to meet the cast, a small gift from ThereisBear!, an exclusive photo with the cast, an annotated script, a mention before every show, a SPECIAL MENTION in our programme, 4 tickets to any of our shows, an invitation to our after show party, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme and a special thanks online.
€200- Archangel: Dinner for 2 with the Bears, annotated pre-production notes and photos, backstage pass to meet the cast, a small gift from ThereisBear!, an exclusive photo with the cast, an annotated script, a mention before every show, a SPECIAL MENTION in our programme, 4 tickets to any of our shows, an invitation to our after show party, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme and a special thanks online.
€300- Deity: Dinner for 2 with the Bears, annotated pre-production notes and photos, backstage pass to meet the cast, a small gift from ThereisBear!, an exclusive photo with the cast, an annotated script, a mention before every show, a SPECIAL MENTION in our programme, 4 tickets to any of our shows, an invitation to our after show party, a signed poster, a signed programme, your name on the programme, a special thanks online, and we will, at your invitation, perform the show at your house!
