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Drama/Comedy
Mon 28 to Wed 30 Jan at 8pm
Rough Magic Theatre Co
Tickets: Mon €18, Tues & Wed €22/€20
Friends Offer: Personal 3 for 2, Couples 4 for 2, Business 8 for 4
With an A-list ensemble including Pauline McLynn and Owen Roe as the sparring love birds, The Taming of the Shrew features live tango, loose morals and gombeen chic.
“A vibrant and funny production… Owen Roe’s Petruchio is a swaggering, Shakespearian Tony Soprano” Village Magazine
Re-imagining Shakespeare’s most sparkling and controversial comedy in wheeler-dealer rural Ireland, Rough Magic’s Shrew is a contemporary take on a play that hinges on fraudulence, farce and bad behaviour.
Winner of 4 Irish Times Theatre Awards:
Best Production
Best Actor (Owen Roe)
Best Costume Designer (Monica Frawley)
Best Lighting Designer (Rupert Murray)
Director: Lynne Parker
Designer: Monica Frawley
Lighting Designer: Rupert Murray
Music: Cathal Synnott
Cast includes: Malcolm Adams, Peter Daly, Darragh Kelly, Simone Kirby, Pauline McLynn, Tadhg Murphy, Rory Nolan and Owen Roe.
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“A wonderful evening… great clarity… great fun… You will not see a better production of the play than this” RTÉ The View
“Richly enjoyable… It’s a lot of fun, and the cast relishes the pace and verve of [Lynne] Parker’s lucid staging” Irish Times
Above: Pauline McLynn and Owen Roe star in Rough Magic's award winning production.
“This is a hugely entertaining and vivid production … a must-see” Sunday Business Post
“Shakespeare’s early comedy has seen countless adaptations, but Rough Magic’s colourful production set in 1970s rural Ireland may well be one of the most inspired… a comic gem from start to finish” Metro AM