A Terrible Beauty Is Born: The Easter Rising, Ireland 1916

Fermat's Last Theater, Co. will present A Terrible Beauty Is Born: The Easter Rising, Ireland 1916 on Saturday, April 26 2025 at 7:30pm. Free admission.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born: The Easter Rising, Ireland 1916 is a new documentary theater piece about the Irish Rising of 1916, with music by Tom Kastle and narration by Alex Hancock. Join us for this true story of the Irish struggle to throw off the yoke of British colonialism. For though the rebels would pay with their lives, Ireland would be free within six years.

Fermat's Last Theater

The name for Fermat’s Last Theater came about because one member of the company, upon re-reading The Merchant of Venice, had an idea for a production, but as with the 17th century mathematician, his conception was too large to include all the details in the margin of the of text.

We are a political theater—we stage works that explore issues of class, race and gender. Founded as a Shakespeare company in 2013, we have in recent years been exploring the genre of documentary theater—theater about real people, events and social movements.

We are a free theater. You will never be asked to buy a ticket to gain admittance to any of our work. We believe that being a political theater is inextricably linked with being a free theater. We pay our performers, and rely on a network of individual donors and city, state and national granting agencies to fund our shows. At the end of each performance, we do ask for free will donations for those able to contribute.

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