Middletown|Local Event
Beautiful Estrangement: One-Man American-Irish Musical Journey
A Middletown family travels to Ireland to celebrate their mother’s 60th birthday and find their grandmother’s cottage in County Cavan. Then 9/11 leaves them stranded for six days. As they try to get home, two strangers take them in, and a local man helps them find the cottage they came looking for.
Beautiful Estrangement is a one-man musical based on that true story, written and performed by Middletown’s James Dunigan (Seamus Sionnach). Through original songs, live guitar, and a cast of characters he plays himself, Dunigan brings his family’s journey to the stage with humor, warmth, and a firsthand account of what it was like to be far from home on September 11, 2001.
Five performances at Navesink Library Theatre
149 Monmouth Ave., Atlantic Highlands, NJ
- Friday, November 13 at 7 p.m.
- Saturday, November 14 at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.
- Sunday, November 15 at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.