by Rose Rushe
Photo: Sally-Ann Kelly
FISHAMBLE: The New Play company is bringing a play, ‘Swing’ around the country to big audiences and doting critical support. Venturing to the US, the mighty New York Times found time to review and make ‘Swing’ its Critic’s Pick, remarking: “You want to join them on the dance floor”.
“Them” being co-writers, dancers and players of multiple parts, Steve Blount and Janet Moran, who with director Peter Daly and Fishamble’s literary manager Gavin Kostick, have crafted this likeable tale of a unique relationship.
“It’s the story of Joe and May, both of them having arrived at a crossroads in life,” Kostick tells Limerick Post. [He’s fresh out of Pulse’s success with Pinhead Duffy here in June, Helena Close’s new play]. “May is nearly 40, thinking that it is time for her to settle down. She is in a relationship. Joe is a little older, trying get his life back on tracks”.
Be it therapy, sociability, a skillset or seeking something/ someone new, they find themselves individually at dance class. ‘Swing’ is their movement, all the ways, through five formative classes over a year.
“Janet Moran and Steve Blount play and dance multiple roles, and [Swing] is about giving it a go, enjoying it, being part of – how they commit to it weekly,” Kostick tells us.
As Yeats asked, “How can we tell the dancer from the dance?”
Be caught in the rhythm and 1950s’ shim-sham for this conversation of life at Friar’s Gate, Kilmallock, tonight Thursday 10 only at 8pm. Tel. 063-98727
