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Walking with Ghosts

By: Gabriel Byrne
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By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Walking with Ghosts is a delightful portrait of the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies. A Landmark production, it came to Broadway direct from highly acclaimed runs in London’s West End; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Dublin, Ireland.

As a young boy growing up on the outskirts of Dublin, the stage and screen legend sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and commentary on stardom, the actor-writer returned to Broadway and Audible to reflect on a life’s journey.

Adapted from his best-selling memoir of the same name and directed by Emmy Award® winner Lonny Price (Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill), Walking with Ghosts is written and performed by the “spellbinding” (The Times) Gabriel Byrne (Hereditary, HBO’s In Treatment).

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About the Creator and Performer - Gabriel Byrne

About the Creator and Performer

Gabriel Byrne has starred in more than 80 feature films and has worked with some of cinema's leading directors.
Movies include Excalibur, Miller's Crossing, Into the West, The Point of No Return, Little Women, Spider, The Usual Suspects, Dead Man, The End of Violence, Louder than Bombs, The Man in the Iron Mask, Vanity Fair and Death of a Ladies’ Man.
Next he stars as Samuel Beckett in the upcoming film Dance First, directed by James Marsh. On Broadway, he received a Tony Award nomination for his performance as James Tyrone Jr opposite Cherry Jones in A Moon for the Misbegotten, directed by Daniel Sullivan. He won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for A Touch of the Poet, directed by Doug Hughes.
In 2016, he starred as James Tyrone opposite Jessica Lange in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night, directed by Jonathan Kent, for which he received nominations from the Tony Awards and Outer Critics Circle.
TV includes Vikings, Maniac, Zero Zero Zero and Secret State. He won the Golden Globe in 2008 for his role in the HBO series In Treatment. In 2019, Byrne was honoured by the Irish Film and Television Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award for contribution to cinema. His critically acclaimed memoir upon which Walking with Ghosts is based has been longlisted for the 2022 French Prix Femina.
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About the Director - Lonny Price

About the Director

On Broadway, Lonny Price directed Sunset Boulevard, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, 110 in the Shade, Master Harold... and the Boys, Sally Marr and her Escorts (co-written with Joan Rivers and Erin Sanders), Urban Cowboy, A Class Act (Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical, co-written with Linda Kline) and Off-Broadway’s Scotland PA, which had its world premiere at Roundabout Theatre Company’s Laura Pels Theatre in 2019.
West End credits include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, as well as Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd and Man of La Mancha, the latter four for English National Opera. Film and television credits include the New York Philharmonic’s Camelot (starring Gabriel Byrne), Sweeney Todd (Emmy Award), Passion (Emmy Award), and Company. He also directed the stage and filmed versions of his tribute to Stephen Sondheim, Sondheim: The Birthday Concert! (Emmy Award). Additional television credits include Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill for HBO, as well as episodes of 2 Broke Girls and Desperate Housewives. For his first feature, Master Harold ... and the Boys, he received a Best Director Award from the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.
His documentary Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened premiered at the New York Film Festival and was named one of the New York Times’ Top 10 Films of 2016, and his other documentary Hal Prince: The Director’s Life (PBS) was also released to critical acclaim.
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Great story of his life. His voice was wonderful to listen to. I would definitely recommend anyone to listen.

Beautiful

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Such warm and lovely stories!
I, too, could not drift off listening to his melodic voice as the stories were so enchanting, I needed to be present to hear each and everyone. Well done…thanks ever so… Cheers!!

Brilliant!! :)

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I love Ireland. I’ve been there several times. It’s an enchanting place. All the family on my mother’s side - the Walshes and Murphys - were born there, and not many of them emigrated to the United States from there. Sadly, I only knew one grandmother, who died when I was a teenager. I wish I could talk to her now. There are so many things I’d love to to ask her. Something about listening to Gabriel talk about his early life touches me profoundly and I could listen to his beautiful lilting accent forever.

Listening to Gabriel feels like balm for my soul.

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This felt so reminiscent of Jame’s Joyce’s first novel. Wonderfully engaging! Beautifully written, produced, and performed!

Modern version of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Such a gift to hear Mr. Byrne's story from his own self. Really excellent. I highly recommend.

Wonderful actor

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Byrne writes/reads/talks about his life in this short narrative. A bit too interesting to fall asleep to despite how melodious his voice is. Wonderful brief look at some of the things that made Byrne who he is.

A quick tale of a fine actor's life

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I loved this so so much, I listened because I adore Gabriel, I thought why not.. I have never felt so many emotions reading something, I was right there with him on the journey. My father was from Dublin, I was raised in England, so much of it resonated with me. Gabriel’s ability to paint a landscape, sharing the depths of his agony and ecstasy, amazing.
I will be reading anything I can find that he has written.

I felt so much

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Capturing and narrating the minds eye from your past is a rare skill. We’ll written and performed.

Wonderful listen. Authentic and sweet

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Gabriel Byrne—a quintessential Irish storyteller. This memoir is specifically Irish, so authentically personal, yet so universal. And Byrne’s performance is compelling and entertaining.

A Beautiful, Achingly Honest Memoir

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Mr. Byrne shares his life’s story in such a beautiful way, I had to listen start to finish without stopping,
You will enjoy it!

Excellent

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