CONGRATS to Lunchtime Theatre at the Savoy, another body that has secured funding through Limerick Arts Encounter embrace. This monthly grouping of five performances, two at lunch, one teatime (today Thursday 26 at 6pm – go book now) and two performances of a second work at the weekend 8pm will close September on a pacy note.
This Thursday 26 at 6pm and tomorrow Friday 27 at 1pm, a George Bernard Shaw play, ‘Village Wooing’, will entertain. Directed by Michael James Ford, it’s a likeable tale “set on the deck of the cruise ship, the Empress of Patagonia. An upper class travel writer has his work interrupted by a chatty young phone operator with romantic intentions.”
Elliott Moriarty and Rebecca Grimes are cast in a show one critic punned as “buoyant with wit and sensitivity”.
Limerick Posties went along today and had a lot of laughs. In ‘Village Woo’, Shaw spins the classic tale of ‘she chased him until he caught her’. Romantic rushes of language on the male suitor’s part are met with an ‘I nailed you, didn’t I?’ level of response on hers. ’tis a heart-warmer and witty.
The productive Magic Roundabout Theatre Company stages a one-man show this Friday 27 and Saturday 28 at 8pm, again in Savoy Hotel and backed by Payday Productions.
Darren Maher has written and directs Zebedee Moore in ‘Spinal Krapp’, “a densely written” piece that tracks the mind of a boy growing up in a crowded house in a bunched northside estate. Moore, himself a Dubliner, calls it “a Ulyssean stand-up tragedy about a manic North Dublin childhood in the 1980s”.
‘Spinal Krapp ‘ has toured regionally over the couple of years of its existence, meeting demand. In The Pale earlier in 2013 for the 10-Days Festival, Irish Theatre Magazine took the time to review, noting the actor’s “multi dimensional performance” that got “the textural essence of a character in conflict”.
Playgoers in Limerick have long noted Darren Maher’s subtle sophistication on stage, be that his days with Impact Theatre Company doing Mamet or Beckett, or Magic Roundabout’s knock-out ‘American Bull’ this year.
He is also a gifted playwright; this is his second work staged in three months by the company co-run with Moore and wife Sylvia Moore.
Book for remaining seats on www.limericktheatre.com and facebook lunchtheatre for either show or try tickets at the door.
