Photo: Sally Anne Kelly
ON to Kilmallock’s Friar’s Gate for Friday 25 and the tragi-comic solo show that is ‘Charolais’.
Actress/ writer Noni Stapleton plays the dulcet-moo’d heifer who pines for a classy sire to love and philosophise with. Stapleton is as convincing as the deadly, resourceful Siobhan who is envious of the Frenchie and her parallel pregnancy. This mot still has energy to play the giant mutt of a farmer boyfriend and Brída, his icily judgemental mother.
The real character is Charolais who is played as adorably snob by the empathetic performer that this playwright is. If Brída is patronising, well, perhaps it’s from this scented cowpat she licked it.
There is an odd twist to the tail towards the end that gives or takes from the drama but Stapleton is mopping up rave reviews. Limerick gave her an ovation in No. 69.
Gory laughs directed by Bairbre Ní Chaoimh, 8pm this Friday September 25.
Review by Rose Rushe
