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... Money from America Tabard Tom 0' Brien has penned the first play of a season of new writing at the Tabard. His piece is an Irish melodrama, the first of a Waterford trilogy, and is staged by Hamish Gray. The American money is the stash of dollars Jack ...
... tragedy was in the poignant An Treas Fad, by John Murray, and the comedy in John F MacLeod's Salvage. Set in Lewis in 1814 and America in 1852, An Treas Fad is a deliberately-paced piece telling of two brothers, Tormod and Mlcheil, separated when the younger ...
... keep it small seems to be the motto for Forest Forge--a method that spells success for this tale of emigration to 1850s America. Playwright Philip Goulding draws on one Hampshire farming family to stand for the countless people who exchanged one lot ...
... Scam Riverside Studios In twenties America a conman named Oscar Hartzell cheated thousands of poor farmers out of their savings by claiming to have access to Sir Francis Drake's treasure, and so persuasive was he that he kept them on the hook, and investing ...
... Theatre Peter Morris' solo show, performed by Ben Duhl under the direction of Dylan Lowthian, hopes to offer insight into America's epidemic of schoolyard shootings by presenting a disaffected teenager drifting towards violence. Martin is 18 (too old for ...
... Gertrude Lawrence, from their early juve nile meeting as child actors at the Liverpool Rep in 1913 through to her death in America in 1952. It is brilliantly performed by Michael Vaughan as Coward and Corinna Powlesland as Lawrence. They make a sparkling ...
... Goodbye Glasgow/Touring Mary Gallagher's new play really gets under the skin of conflicting friendship in late 20th-century America. But Clyde Unity Theatre's production, performed at the Tron's Changing House space, is less than the sum of its parts a shame ...
... Caroline Harding is perfect as his domineering mother who prefers her days as a Southern belle to the harsh realities of America in the thirties. Lisa Harding is also excellent as her daughter Laura, who is as fragile as the glass animals she collects ...
... not for real. The action centres around a murder mystery weekend in a mansion on a remote island in the middle of a lake in America where the friends of a successful novelist gather each year to cele brate Halloween. A great admirer of Agatha Christie, the ...
... where all teaching will be through English and the students, desperate to learn the tongue spoken in the land of opportunity, America, will move on. Friel examines the impact on one hedge school, its master, played with a suitable air of weary wisdom by Garrett ...
... versatility, if not his sensitivity, as a succession of depraved, damaged and greedy characters that shine a greasy light on America's cultural and social failings. Whippet-lean, Scott makes full use of the tiny Stalls Studio, which has been decorated with ...
... Dancing at Lughnasa Dublin This has been one of Brian Friel's most successful plays, touring to acclaim in both Britain and America and adapted for the cinema by Pat O'Connor. Director Patrick Mason returns it to its first home, the Abbey, for a new run ...