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Tales of Ballycumber

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  • 02-10-2009 9:07am
    #1
    eoin1981
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭


    Did anyone see this yet. I saw it last night. It was extremely average. Maybe there's just teething problems as the actors get to know it. However it just didn't seem to work and I don't think the material the best to begin with.


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    Dingo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Dingo


    Saw it last night, and thought it was wonderful - moving, poetic, rooted in a particular place but with universal resonance, full of stories told in rich, heightened language.

    The actors, particularly Aaron Monaghan and Liam Carney, were superb.

    Colm Byrne has a review here


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    Lame Lantern
    Registered Users Posts: 368 ✭✭Lame Lantern


    Saw the matinee today. Rea didn't seem to be particularly comfortable in the first two acts but was very adept in the latter ones.

    While I liked Barry's dialogue, the narrative could've done with a little tuning. It's perhaps a little too subtle and the principle characters could have been made a little more explicable than they were. The Abbey's production value and the direction were, as usual, of an extremely high standard. Worth a look, certainly, and it definitely generated some fine barstool criticism this afternoon.


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    acermaple
    Registered Users Posts: 173 ✭✭acermaple


    Like the first poster didn't find this a great play, mind you much as I tried didn't enjoy The Pride of parnell St last year or the one in the Gate a few years ago Our Lady of Sligo(??). I'm beginning to think he is overrated, Loved the secret scripture though.


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    goldilocks77
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    Saw it two weeks ago - my first trip to the Abbey so I was looking forward to it. Didn't know Aaron Monaghan was in it, thought he was very good as was Liam Carney. Stephen Rea makes it look so easy... I didn't think the play itself was great, but I really loved the set design.


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