by Rose Rushe
SELL out seasons last year at Gaeity Theatre make clear that Des Keogh’s faithful adaptation of John B Keane’s novel, ‘The Love Hungry Farmer’ fills a font of hope within our psyche – 10 years after its creation.
This delicate one man show is based verbatim on Keane’s original text. ‘The Love-Hungry Farmer’, John Bosco McLane’s search for a woman to call his own, is due in town. Richard Ryan Promotions (Dublin) brings this Patrick Talbot production to Corpus Christi NS in Moyross for one night only, this Wednesday April 2 for 7.30pm.
Ryan is man who brought in fabulous shows such as ‘Little Gem’, ‘Dear Frankie’ and ‘Tom Crean Antarctic Explorer’ to this community venue previously.
Back to John Bosco, the tender hearted 50-something bachelor.
“This production has played to full houses in Dublin and in all the major theatres throughout the Island of Ireland,” Richard Ryan reports. “The combination of these legendary figures will provide an evening of exquisite entertainment on Wednesday 2nd next in Corpus Christi for only €5 in to all lovers of good theatre”.
No less than The New York Times critiqued Des Keogh’s show as “fiercely serious and bruisingly hilarious”.
