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"Something Very Close to Revelation"
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 The Labyrinth of Uncle Mark New!
Could an Irish Catholic man, a brilliant lawyer from Cambridge,
Massachusetts and a Japanese Canadian dress designer become
Romeo and Juliet writ large? What happens when in the middle
of World War II, the woman you marry is treated like the
enemy?
"You change my life each time I hear you."
-Liv Ullmann
"The Labyrinth of Uncle Mark is like a Bach cantata. If it were a painting
it would be like Rembrandt's Man in a Golden Helmut."
-Robert Perkins,
International Filmmaker, BBC, PBS
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 Muddy
River Playhouse New!
Jay grew up in a neighborhood of Boston called Pill Hill.
His creaky old house, a tree that was seven realms high,
and an aunt who directed amateur plays with a sherry flask
in hand inspired these stories.
"It brought back
my own youth on Pill Hill . . . adventures on the Muddy
River and playing kick-the-can until the sun went down .
. . You weave a magical spell."
-Jane Alexander
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 Storytelling
Companions: The Farewall Concert
With Jay and his friend, Doug Lipman. Jay's Appalachian
Trail story "Duffle Bag Tim" interwoven with Doug's tales
and music. A unique event.
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 Chickie
Recorded live at the Studio Arena Theatre
Some friendships are made only at certain places and at
certain times. This is a story of a friendship of two boys
who come from different worlds.
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Coming Home To
Someplace New: Pill Hill Stories
 Three
hilarious and poignant stories which reveal the epic drama
of growing up.
- Glasses
- Chickie
- Politics.
"Something close to
a revelation."
- The Boston Globe
"An Undoubted Triumph.
. .
an utterly mesmerizing artist with an unforgettable presence.
. ."
- Irish Literary Supplement
Press Links:
Jeanne Cooper: Boston
Globe
Ed Symkus: The Brookline
Tab
Double Cassette currently out of print. These stories are now on the Two Pill Hill Classics CD and the Chickie CD. Order these two CDs for $22.95 plus shipping.
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The Dance
 Oak stands atop his house on Pill Hill and decides to tell his truth. He is in high school and is full of humor, fire and fear. In The Dance Oak invites us into his inner world where we can laugh, tremble and be overwhelmed by his fears.
"Engrossing theater"
- Boston Globe
"Something close
to revelation"
- Boston Globe
Press Link:
Wendy Kileen: Boston Sunday
Globe
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Dancing With Fire
 A
collection of eight of Jay O'Callahan's short stories. Includes:
- Max (a magical story about the blue pearls in life)
- Fallin'
- Cracked Egg (NPR version of "The Dance")
- Night Fire
- Father Joe (NPR version)
- What Laura Couldn't Say (about Jay's daughter Laura
not wanting to go to first grade)
- Head First
- My Wild Beauty (a love story about a trip to Ireland
Jay made with his wife Linda...where myth meets marriage)
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Father Joe:
A Hero's Journey
 On
March 19th 1945, the aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin
was bombed by Japanese aircraft. Father Joe O'Callahan and
the other heroes on board made the vessel "the ship that
wouldn't be sunk."
"Jay O'Callahan has
drawn an unforgettable portrait with immense power and depth."
- AudioFile
Press Links:
Robin Whitten: AudioFile
Father George W. Hunt: America
Jeanne Cooper: Boston
Globe
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The Herring Shed
 World
War II comes home to a Nova Scotia fishing village. A touching
story told through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl.
GROWNUP CD STORIES AND SEA SONGS
- Home On The Range
- The Iceman
- Hary Janos
- Connor and the Leprechaun
- The Cliffs of Culdurragh.
"A minor-masterpiece."
- Time Magazine
"First-rate theatre.
O'Callahan produces a mix of drama and humor that Mark Twain
would be proud to sign his name to.
He had me so in his power I neglected to take a single note."
- Washington Post
Press Link:
Jay O'Callahan: How
Jay O'Callahan Created the Herring Shed
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 Pill
Hill Quartet
Jay O'Callahan grew up in a neighborhood called Pill Hill
because so many doctors lived there. The magical house and
grounds and the dramas of his lively neighbors inspired
these colorful stories about Norwegians in the attic, a
sausage dog who spoke only Portuguese, salmon in the bathtub
and the delicious mystery of x.
Including:
• Electra
• Muddy River
• High Equations
• A Good Night's Rest
"I was overcome with
contagious laughter and
moved to tears at the fun and humanness of
these wonderfully told stories."
-John Langstaff, founder of Revels
"These stories are like
listening to wonderful theater on the radio,
with Jay portraying all the characters."
-Dick Pleasants, WGBH/WUMB
Parents Choice Award!
New!
 Listen
to a sample from
Pill Hill Quartet: Electra |
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Audie Finalist!
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Pouring the
Sun
 "Pouring
the Sun," is the story of an immigrant woman, Ludvika Moskal,
who like the molten metal in a blast furnace is transformed
into steel. For Ludvika the fires are many; immigration
at 18, raising a family in the poverty of a steel-making
city, fear of reprisal for standing up to injustice. Ludvika,
her family, the whole steel making community of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, built the great cities of this land.
". . . a story of work
and home and love and loss . . .
a rare wine to be savored,"
The Express-Times said of the story.
"[Pouring the Sun]
is a visit with the keepers of the blue flame across the
generations - the steelworkers of Bethlehem, Pa., who 'poured
the sun...'"
America@work
Storytelling World Award!
Press Links:
Shira J. Boss: Christian
Science Monitor
K.D. Norris: Express Times
Ted Woelke: The Valley
Mary & Michael Leppert: The
Link
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 Stories
& Sea Songs
With Jay O’Callahan and John Langstaff
Including The Herring Shed
Live in Concert
Two exceptional performers and old friends come together
to tell stories and sing in this live concert recording
by Jay O'Callahan and John Langstaff. Collaborating on the
theme of the sea, O'Callahan tells two of his best stories--The
Cliffs of Culdurragh and The Herring Shed--and Langstaff
sings sea songs such as "I'se the B'y That Builds the
Boat" and "Coast of High Barbary." The recording
captures the spontaneity and joy of the evening, including
the audience who couldn't resist joining in on the last
song, "Wild Mountain Thyme."
- The Cliffs of Culdurragh - Jay O’Callahan
- My Bonny - John Langstaff
- I’se the B’y That Builds the Boat - John
Langstaff
- She’s Like The Swallow - John Langstaff
- William Taylor - John Langstaff
- Intro to Coast of High Barbary - John Langstaff
- Coast of High Barbary - John Langstaff
- Introduction to The Herring Shed - Jay O’Callahan
- The Herring Shed - Jay O’Callahan
- Coda to Herring Shed - Jay O’Callahan
- Johnny’s Gone to Hilo - John Langstaff
- Leave Her, Johnny, Leave Her - John Langstaff
- Wild Mountain Thyme - Jay O’Callahan and John
Langstaff
Storytelling
World Award 2006!
Visit Revels Website
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 Two
Pill Hill Classics:
Glasses and Politics
These stories were performed and recorded live at the National
Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee in October
2000 and 2002. Glasses is a story about how the war
ends for a seven year old boy. It's a story of a little
boy who is always breaking his glasses and just about everything
else. Sometimes things need to be broken before they can
become whole again. Politics is a story of a wild
adventure that is to seal a friendship for a lifetime.
Including:
Listen
to a sample from
Two Pill Hill Classics:
Glasses and Politics: Glasses |
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Village Heroes
 Jay
O'Callahan creates a theatre for the mind. The Washington
Post called it "A mix of drama and humour that Mark Twain
would be proud to sign his name to." Four enchanting stories
of love, courage and comedy:
- Hary Janos
- The Lighthouse Man Fool's Bells
- Edna Robinson.
"At the cutting edge
of . . . an art form."
- Christian Science Monitor
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This
new story written by Jay O'Callahan lets you experience
the plight of the ocean. In "The Spirit of the Great Auk",
he recreates Dick Wheeler's 1500 mile kayak voyage from
Newfoundland to Buzzards Bay.