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Powder Her Face

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O'Reilly TheatreGreat Denmark Street Dublin 1, Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Dates/times in Dublin time zone
Programme
Adès, Thomas (b. 1971)Powder Her Face
Performers
Irish National Opera
Timothy RedmondConductor
Antony McDonaldDirector, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Mary PlazasSopranoDuchess
Daire HalpinSopranoMaid (Confidante, Waitress, Mistress, Rubbernecker, Society Journalist)
Adrian DwyerTenorElectrician (Lounge Lizard, Waiter, Priest, Rubbernecker, Delivery Boy)
Stephen RichardsonBassHotel Manager (Duke, Laundryman, Other guest)
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Powder Her Face is gloriously kinky in Dublin
Michael Roddy, 8th 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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Adrian DwyerAntony McDonaldDaire HalpinIrish National OperaMary PlazasPowder Her FaceStephen RichardsonThomas AdèsTimothy Redmond
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