FISHAMBLE: The New Play Company helped to produce this weekend’s comedy ‘Small Plastic Wars’ through its Show in a Bag series.
As with ‘Swing’, another Show in a Bag due in on Easter Saturday, ‘Small Plastic Wars’ is a thrilling work to emerge from writers who were largely unknown. Now – mostly as performers also – they are bringing bums and original theatre to seats in venues countrywide and sometimes abroad.
The pioneering spirits behind #Theatre at the Savoy saw right to platform ‘Small Plastic Wars’ in 2014 and some of us got a glimpse then. Go see this gem for Pat McGrath as isolated Man in a Shed, the comfort bunker where his skill at making model vehicles and planes is salvation.
Joe (McGrath) has come to inhabit a world only as big as his handiwork – minutely glued and pinned together at 1/35 scale.
Having lost his job, what’s a man to do? Feel big and brilliant in the cut-wrist world of competitive model-craft. Will his constant rival Hermann wipe Joe’s eye again?
“Unemployment has finally given [Joe] the time to enjoy his hobby of sticking bits of plastic together, but unfortunately his wife, his kids, the bank, his nemesis Hermann (whose real name is Brian), the checkout girl in Tesco and Angela Merkel have other ideas”.
‘Small Plastic Wars’ is adorably real and hard-hitting. Book at www.limetreetheatre.ie for Belltable on O’Connell Street, Saturday March 12.
