Event listing: Powder Her Face | O'Reilly Theatre | Wed 7 Mar 2018 at 19:30

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O'Reilly TheatreGreat Denmark Street Dublin 1, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

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Programme

Adès, Thomas (b. 1971)

Performers

Irish National Opera
Timothy Redmond	Conductor
Antony McDonald	Director, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Mary Plazas	Soprano	Duchess
Daire Halpin	Soprano	Maid (Confidante, Waitress, Mistress, Rubbernecker, Society Journalist)
Adrian Dwyer	Tenor	Electrician (Lounge Lizard, Waiter, Priest, Rubbernecker, Delivery Boy)
Stephen Richardson	Bass	Hotel Manager (Duke, Laundryman, Other guest)

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Powder Her Face is gloriously kinky in Dublin

Michael Roddy, 6th March

Top accolades go to soprano Mary Plazas, whose Duchess was at once despicable for her sense of entitlement and her racist and anti-Semitic views, and heartbreakingly vulnerable with her realisation at the end that "the only people who were ever good to me were paid for it".

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