Click above to buy this Groupon for the March 12 performance of Finnegan's Wake. Click on the links below for additional performance dates.
- Buy here for Saturday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m.
- Buy here for Friday, March 19, at 7:30 p.m.
- Buy here for Saturday, March 20, at 7:30 p.m.
- Buy here for Friday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m.
Even at an Irish wake, the good times flow like a properly poured Guinness cascading off the barman's bare chest. Surround yourself with a raucous group of Boston Irish with today's deal: for $29, you get one ticket to see Finnegan's Wake at the Lantana in Randolph, a $48 value. Your Groupon is only valid for the date you purchase, so be sure to buy from the correct link above. All shows start at 7:30 p.m. and include general admission and a three-course dinner.
This improv-infused interactive comedy centers on an Irish wake, an event notorious for being even more raucous and whiskey-fueled than an Irish bris. The characters commemorate the life and times of a fallen comrade as only the Irish can. Through audience participation and contributions, each performance is a one-of-a-kind journey through participatory song, dance, and jokes. While sitting back to enjoy the show or speaking up to influence it, you'll be served three courses, including a tossed garden salad, chicken piccata with light lemon butter sauce, and velvet chocolate mousse for dessert. Though the actors are not officially allowed to eat off your plate, their desperate expressions may encourage you to toss them a scrap or two.
The beautiful setting of the Lantana is a perfect backdrop for the gritty good times of Finnegan's Wake. This is a great place to make up for any recent romantic missteps involving beds of thorny roses. Or come with a group of your favorite lads and ladies and quickly bond with fellow mock funeral attendees over a few pints.
Reviews
With Finnegan's Wake's 11th season starting March 6, reviews for the upcoming season will have to wait. However, the Atlantic City Weekly played up the show's laughs during its New Jersey incarnation:
- Death doesn’t take a holiday in Atlantic City’s newest interactive show. Death is the holiday — or at least a cause for celebration — in the latest adaptation of “Finnegan’s Wake,”...Loosely based on the Irish song of the same name, Finnegan’s Wake is a dinner theater experience that puts the audience in the middle of a raucous Irish wake and gets the crowd into the act, which often contains dialogue that would give it an R-rating if it was a film. – David J. Spatz, Atlantic City Weekly
Groupon Says
Finnegans Wait, What?
Seeing Finnegan's Wake may encourage you to read Finnegans Wake, an experimental tome of comic fiction ranked among the most difficult works in the English language. What is it, exactly, that makes it so hard to get through?
- Pages all sticky
- Written entirely in Irish or something
- Really hurtful limerick about your dad on page 259
- Absence of discernible linear plot in favor of digressive dream-narrative that arguably reflects the nature of consciousness itself, a fluid pseudo-structure of shifting viewpoints and relevancies piled with additional layers of obscurity by Joyce’s impenetrable reference-puns to history, mythology, and yet-to-be-written Queen lyrics
- Television continues to be invented
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