Or, by Liz Duffy Adams runs September 12-28 at Irish Classical Theatre Company

This deliciously dizzying (semi)-historical romp is a night in the life of Aphra Behn; poet, international spy, and England’s first professional female playwright.

Sprung from debtors’ prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London theatre companies, if she can finish her play by morning. But she’s thwarted by interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scot – who may be in on a plot to murder the king. Can Aphra save Charles’ life, win William a pardon, resist Nell’s charms, and launch her career, all in one night? Against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counterculture of free love and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy about “the female Shakespeare.”

Or, by Liz Duffy Adams runs from Friday, September 12th to Sunday, September 28th at Irish Classical Theatre Company! To purchase tickets, click here.