Whyo

WhyoEpic sprawling play set amongst the Irish underworld of 19th Century New York, as a young off the boat Irishman finds his brother in deep with the brutal and powerful Whyo gang. Love, betrayal, corruption, revenge and violence, colored by a streak of twisted humor in this award winning piece. "Larry Blamire is a playwright of vision. He is a bold writer who writes in complete worlds. Larry takes a shard of psychological reality and writes it into a

Epic sprawling play set amongst the Irish underworld of 19th Century New York, as a young off-the-boat Irishman finds his brother in deep with the brutal and powerful Whyo gang. Love, betrayal, corruption, revenge and violence, colored by a streak of twisted humor in this award-winning piece.

"Larry Blamire is a playwright of vision. He is a bold writer who writes in complete worlds. Larry takes a shard of psychological reality and writes it into a complete dramatic world where behavior and action are slaves to that reality only. Though his worlds are unique, in this ability he is not unlike a Sam Shepard or Craig Lucas. He creates a complete place quite apart from our lives, yet devastatingly familiar."

"Larry Blamire follows the shapes of his own amazing imagination and the result is a dramatic wealth matched by few other playwrights."
--Grey Cattell Johnson, Associate Artistic Director, Gloucester Stage Company