The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Aug. 20th, 2018 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitAs soon as this play was announced last November I booked a ticket realising I could see it during the time I normally spend up in London. It's a play written by Martin McDonagh in 1994, although not staged until 2001. But the attraction was seeing Aidan Turner on stage. Which, I rather imagine, was the reason most of the audience were there.
The play is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and although the critics seem mostly favourably impressed, I don't think it was anywhere near as good as The Ferrryman. There's violence and there's just plain stupid. It's gory, which, given the right context, I accept (think Titus Andronicus), but this is played for laughs and to my mind laboured. The play was seeking to make a point, but for me it failed completely. Others may disagree.
But Aidan Turner was very good. I'd happily see him in something else. He conveyed a range of emotions believably and raised his character, Padraic, from the level of the almost sit-com nature of the other characters.
The play is set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and although the critics seem mostly favourably impressed, I don't think it was anywhere near as good as The Ferrryman. There's violence and there's just plain stupid. It's gory, which, given the right context, I accept (think Titus Andronicus), but this is played for laughs and to my mind laboured. The play was seeking to make a point, but for me it failed completely. Others may disagree.
But Aidan Turner was very good. I'd happily see him in something else. He conveyed a range of emotions believably and raised his character, Padraic, from the level of the almost sit-com nature of the other characters.
