Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Theater Review: The Lieutenant of Inishmore/AstonRep Theatre Company

(Another!) review for Newcity Stage: 
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Chadwick Sutton, John Wehrman, Robert Tobin and Tim Larson
Photo: Emily Schwartz
The indiscriminate momentum of violence drives the action and the banality of its coarse adherents provides the comedy in “The Lieutenant of Inishmore.” The humor in Martin McDonagh’s play is as black as the cat that propels lead character Padraic back to his hometown, where he’s feared and loathed by all save young lass Mairead, smitten with Padraic’s self-appointed rise in the ranks and giddy with her own revolutionary aspirations. The cat’s named Wee Thomas but might more informatively be named MacGuffin…
(read full review here)

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