On the Town: Some were leaving for Beijing the next day for the China Ireland Cultural Festival, which is in full swing. It was the night's best boast.
Michael Colgan, who attended the opening night of Arthur Miller's play, The Price, on Tuesday night, was heading east the next morning for the opening of Waiting for Godot with Johnny Murphy, Barry McGovern, Alan Stanford, Conor Lovett, and Fionn Curtis as the young boy.
Richard Wakely, the festival's commissioner, won't be home from China for about four more weeks, said Teerth Chung, his wife and the Gate's head of production.
Also at the opening night of The Price was Donna Leonard, stage director of Conor McPherson's new play, Shining City. Robert Prosky, once a familiar face in Hill Street Blues, plays Gregory Solomon in The Price. He joined his wife, anthropologist Ida Prosky, in the Gate bar. Her latest book, You Don't Need Four Women to Play Shakespeare, is about actresses and the problems they face in theatre.
Others who came to the opening night included abbeyonehundred chairman John McColgan and wife Moya Doherty; playwrights Bernard Farrell and Tom Murphy actor Jane Brennan; cellist Niall O'Loughlin and his wife, violinist Anne Harte, both of the National Symphony Orchestra and actors Stephen Brennan and Dawn Bradfield.