The two actor format, in which a whole host
of characters are portrayed, places tough demands on the performers.
Unfortunately, the actors involved in this play did not meet the
challenges successfully. Too many fluffed lines and missed cues
simply left the play’s humour flat. My impression was of saying
the lines rather than acting the parts.
The play started brightly enough recounting
the upbringing of two brothers in a very repressive Roman Catholic
Limerick sometime in the 1920’s. As the play wore on to the follow
the boys as young men in America, it became more ragged and tedious.
It is a production to avoid.
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