Page Content
Image
Text
Silver Stars is a moving and eloquent song-cycle, which tells the truly extraordinary real-life stories of older gay Irishmen. Men in search of happiness and fulfilment, in a country that was challenged by their very existence.
Text
Background
In 2008, in collaboration with Brokentalkers, we created a song cycle based on celebrated singer/songwriter Seán Millar’s interviews with gay men from Dublin to New York.
These songs capture tales of love, loss, family, spirituality, defiance and joy. Silver Stars was performed by a cast of older Irish gay men.
World Premiere
Project Arts Centre as part of the Bealtaine Festival 2008. Revival as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival 2009.
Voted number one Theatre in the Noughties: the decade’s top ten Irish Independent’s Review of the Decade, January 31, 2009.
Image
Text
“Silver Stars” at the 2011 Auckland Arts Festival
Video
Image
Text
“Extraordinary...its effect is simply devastating”
Irish Times
Image
Image
Text
“When it finished, too soon, the woman beside me said, ‘You’d have to have a heart of stone not to have liked that,’ and she was right.”
★★★★★
Colin Murphy, The Irish independent
Text
“This beautifully crafted show is a truly wonderful experience. I am left feeling honoured to have been presented with these very personal and deeply moving tales”
Theatre view New Zealand
Image
Text
“Silver Stars” - I love you more than God
Video
Text
“Radiates dignity and perfectly conveys the depth, humour, and emotion of the stories making up this intriguing production”
The New York Theatre Review
Image
Text
“An effortlessly engaging and unified show...a disarmingly natural, startling piece of theatre...spine tingling”
★★★★★
Metro