Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation in 2017

Award-winning Performance-readings of D ARCY
by Sandra Dempsey now booking!

Award-winning Canadian-Irish playwright/performer Sandra Dempsey is now booking performance-readings of her outstanding published play, D ARCY.
  

A marvellous, smashing piece.
Gordon Pinsent, Toronto
Stunning and memorable. A real tour de force!
Rosemary O Brien, Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Very lively history. Chilling, still relevant to modern day. Globe & Mail

Sandra reaches a level of emotional excitement that effectively takes the words off the page and into the hearts of her audience. Brian Brennan, Calgary

D'ARCY is as strong and important a play as any of the old masters. The Standard

Humorous, emotional and passionate. She left the audience with lumps in their throats. Joan Cumming, Province House, Charlottetown

Sandra was magnificent in the trousers role, drunk or sober, old or young,
idealist or rogue and she also displayed an amazing, gorgeous Irish whisky-baritone singing voice!   Geralyn Horton, Galway

D ARCY is the passionate dramatization of the life and times of Thomas D Arcy McGee, Irish patriot and Father of Confederation. In 1868, less than one year after the founding of Canada, D Arcy was assassinated in Ottawa by Irish-American Fenian terrorists.

With her incredible acting and vocal abilities, Sandra literally performs D ARCY  before her audiences. She ll transport you back to the late 1800s for the inspirational yet tragic story of this great Irish-Canadian statesman, creating a most entertaining theatrical experience unlike any you ve ever seen or heard.

Sandra has presented her patented performance-readings of D ARCY at theatres, libraries, schools, universities, colleges, clubs, societies, pubs, governments and on live radio throughout Canada, the USA and Ireland.
   

Sandra's performance-reading  of D ARCYwill amaze your audience!

To Book D ARCY: Funding subsidies are available through the Canada Council and Playwrights Guild of Canada. Limited availability so book soon! Contact:
  
Sandra Dempsey   
   sd@SandraDempsey.com     www.SandraDempsey.com