Limerick Fringe theatre: Play on Words

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โ€œA lively innovative piece of writingโ€ was praise indeed from The (mighty) Scotsman newspaper for Limerick company Tigerโ€™s Eye Theatreโ€™s โ€˜Play on Wordsโ€™ at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017.

โ€˜Play on Wordsโ€™ was written by Tigerโ€™s Niall Carmody. It booked a month at C-Venues Royale in the intense Scottish fest of 80 shows competing on any given day.

Going on the crisp vitality of their promenade staging of โ€˜The Importance of Being Earnestโ€™ at No. 1 Pery Square to fund Edinburgh, this outfit has precocious talent to support collective intellect and drive.

The cast of sisters Eleanor Oโ€™Brien and Johanna Oโ€™Brien with Patrick Flannery is directed by Shane Hickey-Oโ€™Mara in this play โ€œwhere language is power and the two women are powerful because of their brilliance with languageโ€.

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No great joy however, for this Harper and Collins (geddit?) pair imprisoned in a bunker with a bucket of Scrabble letters. Set in a nightmarish world of diminished communication and civilisation, the women are tasked โ€œto reach a quota of words. They are the only people in that society who speak English very wellโ€.

Delivered at rapid-fire speed, โ€œthis black comedy, a strange experienceโ€ has them play games such as hangman, Scrabble tiles and try loads of different ways to inspire this episodic minting of language.

The dull guard has a shneakinโ€™ regard for their wit and they look to intrigue him towards liberty.

Two new scenes have been created for โ€˜A Play on Wordsโ€™ that will platform first at Limerick with what reads like a striking, playful political message. Chez le Fab, Arthurโ€™s Quay Park, April 5, 6, 7. Booking at www.limerickfringe.com