"The Prodger" comes to Lismore Courthouse Theatre, The Heritage Centre, Lismore, Co Waterford, the home of "The Prodger" for two nights only this Sat 9th March and Sun 10th March 8.30pm. for 55 minutes of magic. Make sure to book your tickets in advance....
I went along to the New Theater on Friday 1st March after hearing Gaybo mentioning it on his wonderful Lyric FM show on a Sunday afternoon and I was glad I did so as Gay sometimes gets it wrong on his recommendations at times. This was a fantastic sixty minutes of drama and especially the two main characters Johnny an old grumpy alcoholic 1st world war veteran and the bar man/owner attending him Mick. Their old too familiar arguments about what had happened on nights gone by and the aftermaths of old wakes reminded this onlooker of times gone by, but there was a serious side to this drama played by Johnny a crippled, forgotten about after the first world war like millions of others and his memory playing at him as he recounted near death situations he found himself him. The typical priest(Fr Tom) sleeping at the bar seeking comfort in what was a horrible Ireland to live in then and even today the plight of the priest kept at bay by their sexual longings.
ReplyDeleteThe meekness of Coleman an old too stark reminder of the wastage of youth. It was the drama by Johnny & Mick that I found spellbounding and I left the drama with my disgust of war further enhanced and I hope also the British Ambassador who was in attendance found this as well as that Ambassador’s country seeks more of it imperialist adventure in fields were only the young die and their masters sleep well at night