Apple Season on PEI

Coming soon. New hand made pipes by Colm. To be emailed photos of new work just email me at nyccolm@gmail.com.

Poormouth Theatre Fundraiser

The fabulous Poormouth Theatre is having a fundraising evening Saturday October 1st at An Beal Bocht in the Bronx, New York, featuring many extraordinary new Irish American writers as well as old veterans like Don Creedon and Colin Broderick. They have seen fit to generously invite the Canadian Irish contingent as well, so I will be reading from my new play Moonshine Serenade that very evening, and enjoying some tasty American IPA and equally delicious Irish Whiskey. So come one, come all, unless of course you are busy monstering up in Halifax. Me? I've been too busy enjoying Greenwich Beach with my wife and dog.

Beauty in Action

My fabulous Liam up at Niall's cottage around 2001

Margaret and I on our wedding day in Prince Edward Island.

Congratulations to my wife, Margaret Magner who, after having worked for President Clinton as the Director of Development of the William J. Clinton Foundation for over two and a half years, has recently founded her own company Magner Ink.

New York Reviews for The Scavenger's Daughter http://www.thescavengersdaughter.org/

"This Irish-Canadian play is truly a remarkable piece of writing, and like many Irish plays it is infused with the tough soul of a 'never say die' attitude. It manages to convey both grit and sentimentality in the same breath, and Magner's delivery is strong and charismatic". (Markus Paminger. New York. 8.25.10. theasy.com)

For Full Review http://www.theasy.com/Reviews/FringeFestival/thescavengersdaughter.php


The New York Times
Thursday, September 9, 2010

"Memory Scavenger

Once in a while a play catches you off guard, throws you into a sort of semi consciousness where you find your own past rolling in to haunt you as you watch the performance unfold before you on the stage. Scavenger's Daughter is that play. Writer/performer Colm Magner has written a semi autobiographical one man show surrounding the details of his brother's death. It's a performance that takes us on a journey down through the years to the very womb mining the brother’s relationship through a series of stories and anecdotes, as he pores over clues that might somehow make sense of his brother’s gradual detachment from reality and slow slide into despair. Magner, a Canadian of Irish descent, slips easily into the authentic brogue of his mother and father, and the Germanic cadence of the local priest painting for us indelible portraits of the forces that shaped the boys' childhood. Magner is a terrific story teller weaving the intricate strands of a life into a cohesive and entertaining tapestry with all the vibrancy insight, humour and vulnerability of the late Spalding Gray. If you need entertainment, if you need a performance that you won't feel like you've wasted your hard eared money, well then this is the play to see. Colm Magner has given voice to his past in a way that leaves me extremely optimistic about his future."

Colin Broderick, Author- "Orangutan: A Memoir", published by Harper Collins, New York

http://theater.nytimes.com/show/24995/NY-International-Fringe-Festival-The-Scavenger-s-Daughter/overview



"The play is dark and irreverent, but never sorrowful or melancholic...Magner is a sharp, vivid storyteller, creating personas for his own character at many different ages. Strong stage presence" (Martin Denton. 8.25.10. New York. nytheatre.com)

For Full Review: http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/review_fnyc.php?t=scav10707

THIS IS AN IRISH ARTS CENTRE RECOMMENDED PRODUCTION

http://www.irishartscenter.org/eblasts/082510blast.html