McGann’s ‘The Honey Trap’ at Solas Nua
The world premiere of playwright alum Leo McGann’s The Honey Trap opens Nov. 2 at Washington, D.C.’s Solas Nua, a multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to contemporary Irish arts. Set in Leo’s hometown of Belfast, the play explores The Troubles through the lens of an American oral history project. The Honey Trap was Leo’s thesis play, […]
BPT at GPTC
Two of our Playwriting alums—Abbey Fenbert (Intentions) and Leo McGann (The Honey Trap)—are at the Great Plains Theatre Conference (GPTC) this week as part of PlayLab. Twenty-one PlayLabs are held throughout the Conference week with three staged readings running simultaneously. Playwrights receive feedback on their work from a panel of GPTC Guest Artists, as well as other […]
In Boston Playwrights’ ‘Honey Trap,’ There Is No Escaping Northern Ireland’s Troubles
Review from WBUR’s The ARTery Memory and terrorists play tricks in Leo McGann’s gripping new play “The Honey Trap.” But they’re not the only deceivers in this dissembling dance of past and present set to the music of The Troubles that rattled Northern Ireland during much of the second half of the 20th century. “The […]
Playwright Leo McGann on ‘The Honey Trap’
I wrote the first draft of The Honey Trap in the Autumn of 2014. I had just moved to Boston for my MFA and was still getting my head around being in a new country and a new city. When Ronan Noone, one of my professors that semester, set me the challenge of writing a […]