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HAVE YOU had the pleasure of Lepage Cranbrook, “affluent socialite and amateur detective who dons a skeleton mask at night to become The Boneyard Man, New York’s most terrifying crime-fighter”?
Well, shame if not but make up the loss by following this immensely likeable trash to The Kasbah on Dock Road tonight, Thursday 26. Producer/ director Norma Lowney has created further episodes of the1940s spoof noir with collaborators and actors Karen Fitzgibbon (Margery Road), Lepage (Kevin Kiely) and Everyman (Darren Maher).
In truth, they each play multiple roles to drive this wonderfully hokey stuff places – spontaneous laughter, your memory bank, future hopes for repeat verse.
Photo: William de Saint Lúc
Don’t underestimate the power behind Thursday 26’s episodes, ‘A Really Gigantic Shark’ and ‘Escape from Shanghri-Hoobo’, written by Canadian Jayson McDonald. Lowney was up for an Irish Times Theatre Award 2014 last Sunday for miraculous set design to ‘On the Wire’, for Best Production, no less. This WW1 new play gunned with emotional resonance and the truth of its tale.
Back to Kasbah’s firelit, candle-lit backdrop to Margery, Lepage and co. Probed on just what the appeal to her slick Bone-headed series is, their creator answers sweetly: “They are stupidly funny. I think it’s just that silliness and it is not trying to be clever”.
Photo: William de Saint Lúc
She spools back to universal childhood preferences, observing “[The Boneyard Man] is formulaic for a start and people love that, be it ‘The A-Team’ or ‘McIvor’ or you, know, the man with the moustache?” Magnum PI, take a bow.
Norma Lowney is excited about the new space at Kasbah opened out to them by Valerie Dolan, supporter supreme of artists through resources of venue and interest. 8pm doors to this evening’s ruses or in advance at ww.dolans.ie
