Echo Theatre presents Sailing to Byzantium

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	SAILING TO BYZANTIUM by Sandra Deer

At the Bath House Cultural Center
White Rock Lake, Dallas, Texas

September 29 - October 15, 2005

Directed by Linda Leonard

Featuring
Bill Jenkins, Ellen Locy, Carolyn McCormick, Kelly Rypkema,
Garrett Schenk, Dana Tanner and Ashley Wood

For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?

- Easter 1916, William Butler Yeats

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by Sandra Deer,is set against the backdrop of the Irish Easter Monday Rebellion of 1916. BYZANTIUM's primary players include celebrated Irish poet William Butler Yeats, American poet Ezra Pound, and Irish freedom activist Maude Gonne. No one emerges unscathed as artistic and physical passions explode against a highly charged political backdrop. Deer's story is based on actual events and relationships involving these fascinating, larger-than-life people.

SAILING TO BYZANTIUM is a beautifully lyrical play in the tradition of Echo's hugely acclaimed OFF THE MAP. It focuses on the delicate interior lives of its characters, setting them against a muscular and demanding historical landscape, at a time in Ireland when religion and politics were crashing together and grinding away the lives of those activists caught in between. The implications for our present world are clear - how do we manage our private loves and loyalties during times of great political strife? Topical and lovely, SAILING TO BYZANTIUM offers a theatrical respite in which the matters of the heart reign supreme..

Stage Manager: James Hood
Set Design: Chase Corker
Costume Design: Tom Jaekels
Lighting Design: Russell Dyer
Props: Terri Ferguson
Photography: Mark Oristano