Steve Buscemi to join Aidan Quinn for play reading at Abbey

Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn will be joined by veteran US actor Steve Buscemi on stage at the Abbey Theatre this weekend, as part of the Abbey's Love at First Sight series.

Buscemi and Quinn will read playwright Sam Shepard's Ages of the Moon at the Abbey this weekend, on Sunday, October 20th, at 6pm.

A prolific screen presence over the past three decades, Buscemi first made a splash as Mr. Pink in filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's 1992 debut Reservoir Dogs, before enjoying an eclectic career that mixed Hollywood blockbusters like Armageddon, Con Air and a voice role in Monsters Inc. with memorable TV roles in Boardwalk Empire and The Sopranos. Other memorable roles include multple colaborations with The Coen Brothers (notably Fargo and The Big Lebowski) and actor Adam Sandler.

He is currently in Ireland to film the second season of Tim Burton's hit Netflix series Wednesday.

The sold-out performance marks the second instalment of the Abbey's Love at First Sight reading series, which invites a performer to choose a script they love, and a role they’ve always wanted to play, and give a live reading on the Abbey stage for one night only.

Aidan Quinn's selection, Ages of the Moon, originally premiered on the Abbey's Peacock stage in 2009, with actors Stephen Rea and Sean McGinley. The series opened earlier this month with venerable Cork actor Fiona Shaw's selection, 7 Minutes by Stefano Massini.

Commenting on the Love at First Sight series., Co-Director of the Abbey Theatre, Caitríona McLaughlin said: "One of the most thrilling theatre experiences I have ever had was hearing Phillip Seymour Hoffman read a new play for the first time. The experience was electric, he grew the character slowly and if he didn't land a line he repeated it until he got it right. I’ve never forgotten it. The idea for Love at First sight came from an impulse to recreate that experience for our audience."

Find out more about the Love At First Sight series here.