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The Cripple of Inishmaan, Town Hall Theatre Galway Feb 5th to 9th 8pm

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  • 13-01-2007 8:39pm
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    redcrew
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    After a sellout run during Galway's Project 06 the cast and crew of The Cripple of Inishmaan are taking over the main stage in the Town Hall Theatre Galway

    Mon 5h Feb - Fri 9th Feb 8pm

    Tickets from box office 091 569777 and

    http://www.ticketlord.com/events/THGAL/

    Tickets Monday - all seats 8
    Tues - Fri 15/12

    The Cripple of Inishmaan

    BY MARTIN McDONAGH

    DIRECTED BY CATHAL CLEARY

    McDonagh, praised by the New York Times as "the most wickedly funny, brilliantly abrasive young dramatist on either side of the Irish Sea a born storyteller" is one of the worlds most celebrated young playwrights. In The Cripple of Inishmaan, he takes audiences for a romp through the West of Ireland. Ingeniously funny, suspenseful and moving, the play revolves around a disabled orphan living on a barren island off the Irish coast during the 1930s.


    Review from Project 06 run
    Nightclub serves McDonagh’s play well
    By Bernie Ní Fhlatharta

    The intimacy of the Karma nightclup greatly contributed to the success of Zelig Theatre's The Cripple of Inishmaan which opened as part of Project ’06 on Wednesday.
    For a company that was formed especially for Project ’06 to put on one of Martin McDonagh’s plays that is less well known in Galway that those of his Leenane Trilogy, they are playing a blinder this week.
    But then of course, most of the cast are either members of Galway Youth Theatre or ex members and were well able to pick up a script in three weeks.
    The stage might be a temporary one but this cast of young people have made it their own. They manage to transport the audience to the island community and let them peep into the gossip, the small mindness, the cruelty and the sadness of what McDonagh imagines life was in the late 1930s.
    And while their youth gives them the energy to sustain the production, sometimes they look too young to be portraying the characters they are supposed to be. Maybe the make-up department might help.
    But McDonagh’s black comic script overcomes these reservations and overall the play flows fairly smoothly.
    The play centres around a young orphaned cripple who longs to get away from the island community which taunts him because of his deformity. He sees his chance when he hears Americans are making a film (Man of Aran) on Inis Mór. McDonagh fans won’t be disappointed.
    Director Cathal Cleary and the cast have really gelled well and it shows. There were so many good performances it’s almost unfair to name anyone but Brendan Ryan as the Cripple could be snapped up by Hollywood or Garry Hynes of the Druid. Lorcan Kenny was a gem, Mike King was just brilliant as the gossiper and Martina Carey was superb as the cruel Helen.
    But the two who gelled the best on stage were that Aunties played by Ciara Delaney and Saileóg O’Halloran.
    Hopefully, this cast will work together again and entertain us.


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