‘LOVE, Peace and Robbery’ is a short play subtitled ‘tenderness, theft and a talking terrier’. Magic Roundabout Theatre Company returns to the Belltable Arts Centre with this short comic hit from Thursday November 24 to Saturday 26 for 8pm shows on foot its good reception last July. Produced and directed by two avid actors, Zeb Moore and Darren Maher, they cast Jason Reddan as Darren (rogue robber), Jim Moroney as Gary (ditto) and Myles Breen in a multiplicity of roles (mother, parole officer, superintendent, girl etc.) in this affectionate play written by Cork man Liam Hevlin. Reddan talks the talk to Arts page:
“We are two guys who get out of prison, we are both curfewed and we both have personal problems. My character is trying to get some cash together to visit the girlfriend that was, who is over in New Jersey. The other character Gary wants to get it together to impress his stepson by taking him to a match over in Manchester”.
Darren and Gary go rob a post office, but the heist goes awry given their witless state of play.
Producer Zeb Moore was thrilled when the Belltable approached him for a new run of the surprise summer hit:
“Gerry Barnes told me Magic Roundabout just had to bring ‘Love, Peace and Robbery’ back. We got a terrific reception and audiences of 90 to a 100 each night, some of whom had never been to theatre before, and that was on a bank holiday weekend”.
This is true – Arts page checked the end of July dates and the facebook commentary. Enjoy the laughs and the unexpected over 70 minutes.
