This wickedly delightful and heart wrenching play by Martin Cassella is getting a second run in May due to popular demand. The Clifton Performance Theatre had a sold out run in March with lines winding outside the door on nights with a full house. The company decided to bring it back for 6 more shows. Originally the Clifton Players had planned to stage “Riverside” by Kevin Crowley in May. Schedule conflicts for the rather large cast of actors has now moved that to next season. The opening now gives the wildly talented cast to respond to requests for tickets by offering additional shows.
The League of Cincinnati Theatre’s gave the production 4.5 out of 5 stars with an LCT member adding “a hilarious and touching show…I was completely captivated…I got: emotional depth, laser-quick dialogue, and electric chemistry between characters.” David Lyman of the Cincinnati Enquirer adds, “This is as good an ensemble as any local stage has assembled all season. There is an enviable intimacy among them. Some of it is the familiarity built in to Casella’s script. But most of it stems from the remarkable interaction of these veteran actors.” The cast includes veterans Kevin Crowley, Buz Davis and Michael Bath and introduces Pete Wood to the Clifton audience.
What THE IRISH CURSE is — and how it manifests itself — is the raw centerpiece of this wicked, rollicking and very funny new play. From it’s blistering language to it’s brutally honest look at sex and body image, THE IRISH CURSE is a revealing portrait of how men, and society, define masculinity. In doing so, it dares to pose the fundamental question that has been on the minds of men since the beginning of time: “Do I measure up to the next guy?”
Size matters to this small group of Irish-American men who meet every Wednesday night, in a Catholic church basement, at a self-help group for men with small penises. This allegedly Irish trait is the focus of they’re weekly whining as they feel this “shortcoming” has ruined their lives.
One evening, when a twenty-something blue-collar guy joins the group, he challenges everything the other men thought about “the Irish curse” …tackling their obsession with body image and unmasking the comical and truthful questions of identity, masculinity, sex, relationships, and social status that define their lives.”
THE IRISH CURSE Show times
- Friday, May 9 at 8pm
- Saturday, May 10 at 8 pm
- Sunday, May 11 at 3 pm
- Thursday, May 15 at 8 pm
- Friday, May 16 at 8pm
- Saturday, May 17 at 8 pm
Tickets are on sale NOW 513-861-SHOW (7469) http://theirishcurse.brownpapertickets.com/
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