Handel's Crossing

By Joseph O'Connor

A Fishamble: The New Play Company co-production with Temple Bar Cultural Trust, as part of the 2009 Dublin Handel Festival

Handel’s Crossing, staged on the Jeanie Johnston ship for a limited run, is a theatrical re-imagining of George Frideric Handel’s arrival to Dublin in 1742 for the world premiere of Messiah. Meet the great composer and his servants on board, as they await with bated breath the first performance on Fishamble Street of this now revered masterpiece.

Boarding at the Liffey River Cruises dock at Bachelor’s Walk, audiences were ferried down the river, to the Jeanie Johnston ship at Custom House Quay marina for the live performance on the ship.
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Directed by Jim Culleton
Costume Design by Leonore McDonagh
Produced by Orla Flanagan

Cast

Aaron Monaghan
Caitríona Ní Mhurchú
​Kathy-Rose O'Brien
Alan Stanford 

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Touring

2009
​Thursday 16th – Sunday 19th April, Liffey River Cruises dock at Bachelor’s Walk

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Reviews

‘a comic commemoration of Handel’s landmark composition, fittingly performed in its stage incarnation on the historic Jeanie Johnston ship.’
Sara Keating
​The Irish Times Critics Choice of 2009