The Whistling Girl

About this event

Trevor Knight and Honor Heffernan are delighted to present a new show, “The Whistling Girl”.

Featuring musical settings of the poetry of the great Dorothy Parker, creating a darkly sardonic body of work in which the American wit and critic’s poetry is transported into the 21st century and given a sonic face-lift fusing ‘dirty’-cabaret, electronic-vaudeville, rock and jazz, combined with underscored original recordings of Parker’s voice.

Each of the songs are infused with a unique ‘voice’, creating individual tableaux or dream moments from Parker’s psyche, conjuring up images from her tempestuous life of outrageous celebrity,as founding member of the notorious Algonquin set in New York, and as civil rights activist in America and Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

A band of top Irish musicians including Garvan Gallagher bass, Tom Jamieson drums, Ed Deane, electric guitar and Trevor Knight keyboards, will be fronted by vocalist and actress Honor Heffernan.

With this production, Dorothy Parker’s poetry and prose will be opened to a wide audience through exciting musical idioms that will breathe new life into the work of this great American literary icon.

“I shall stay the way I am, because I do not give a damn!”