Glucksman Ireland House presents
Donal O’Kelly discusses and reads from his play The Cambria
Monday, September 14th at 7pm
at Glucksman Ireland House NYU
Playwright and actor Donal O’Kelly speaks on and performs excerpts from his acclaimed play, The Cambria, that explores the story of Frederick Douglass’s 1845 visit to Ireland. The pioneering Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, and reformer. Forced to flee the United States after publishing his life story, A Narrative of the Life of an Escaped Slave, he sought refuge in Ireland just as the potato blight was about to strike.
Presented in association with the Irish Arts Center’s theatrical production Cambria/Douglass, which opens The Cambria in rotating repertory with Roger Guenveur Smith’s Frederick Douglass Now on September 16.