Safe House

The Irish writer-director Enda Walsh (Ballyturk, Medicine) likes to cram big themes into small spaces; his characters often live in hermetic, sometimes imaginary worlds that strain to keep the outside at a distance. In his latest theatrical experiment—presented at his usual New York City outpost, St. Ann's Warehouse—he joins forces with composer Anna Mullarkey to create an impressionistic multimedia song cycle about about the past and present lives of an isolated woman in the Irish countryside. The piece is performed by Kate Gilmore, who starred in its premiere production at Dublin's Abbey Theatre last year.