Backstage Club: Walden

Join us for our fab, fun, summer party - our annual Backstage Club fundraiser is back on July 9th, 2025.

Take your place to be part of our crew for the night and experience life behind the scenes at The Lir Academy! Become part of the Lir team and have a great night with friends, colleagues and our students on July 9th from 6:30pm til late. Backstage is where all the fun is at! Join us for a show, food, cocktails and cabaret - all for €150.

Book for Walden on this page, see below for instalment payment details.

About the production:

Beneath a dying sky, twin sisters reunite, one returned from the stars, the other rooted in the soil of what remains. In a woodland cabin, time stretches and memory stirs.

Once destined to walk the same path, Stella and Cassie now face a future they never dreamed of, shaped by absence, wonder, and the quiet ache of survival.

Walden is a tender reckoning with the bonds of family, the cost of ambition, and the flickering light of hope in a world on the brink.

“You went up to see the world from above, I stayed to feel it crumble beneath my feet”.

Running time approximately 1 hour, 45 minutes without an interval.

We are now offering instalment payments for this fundraiser through Klarna - you can use this link to make your payment. By using Klarna, you will pay for your ticket in 3 instalments of €50. This will incur a fee of €7.52 that will be absorbed by The Lir Academy from your ticket price.

Can't join us but want to help? You can donate at this link - click here.

Read more about the GradFest 2025 programme at this link here.

New York Premiere Produced by Second Stage Theater, New York, 2024. Bennett Leak, Interim Artistic Director, Lisa Lawer Post, Executive Director.
Walden was first presented on stage by Sonia Friedman Productions.

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The Lir Academy is a registered charity (RCN: 20076689) and financially independent of Trinity College Dublin. As a non-profit, any box office, commercial or fundraised income goes back into the work we do. This includes financial student supports, mental health supports and outreach programmes to widen access and equality of training to our programmes. So, your decision to train with us, see a show or become a donor helps keep the actors, technicians and creatives of the future in education. Please see more at thelir.ie/supportus Thank you.