Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Solas Nua, which specializes in contemporary Irish theater of the edgiest sort, starts its 2007-08 season with "Made in China" (Thursday-Nov. 4) at Atlas Performing Arts Center. Mark O'Rowe's violent tale set in an imaginary Dublin underworld will be directed by Colin Hovde.

Mark Doherty's "Trad" (Jan. 24-Feb. 17, 2008), at Flashpoint's Mead Theatre Lab, takes a 100-year-old man and his even more aged father on a trip to find the son's love child. Artistic Director Linda Murray, recently returned from a year in Dublin, will direct.

Dates and venues have not been set for "Portia Coughlan," Marina Carr's saga of an incestuous family, to be staged by Jessica Burgess, and "Pumpgirl," Abbie Spallen's character study of a delusional housewife. Kathleen Akerley will direct.

-- Jane Horwitz