Little Thing, Big Thing Written by Donal O’Kelly Directed by Jim Culleton Fishamble: The New Play Company 59E59 Theaters, NYC September 2-27, 2015
A thief and a nun duck into a closet under the stairs: this is not the setup for a joke but for Little Thing, Big Thing, the newest work from award-winning playwright and performer Donal O’Kelly, having made its way to the United States as part of New York City’s annual 1st Irish Festival. Ex-con Larry O’Donnell ends up in that closet with Sister Martha McCann, who is returning from Nigeria to oversee the sale of the thematically evocative Lazarus Convent, when their paths cross by chance in the midst of his pulling off one last job. Larry’s final heist, a valuable statue of the Virgin, is interrupted because Martha has a second task in Ireland: to fulfil a death-bed request to hand-deliver a mysterious roll of film,...
A thief and a nun duck into a closet under the stairs: this is not the setup for a joke but for Little Thing, Big Thing, the newest work from award-winning playwright and performer Donal O’Kelly, having made its way to the United States as part of New York City’s annual 1st Irish Festival. Ex-con Larry O’Donnell ends up in that closet with Sister Martha McCann, who is returning from Nigeria to oversee the sale of the thematically evocative Lazarus Convent, when their paths cross by chance in the midst of his pulling off one last job. Larry’s final heist, a valuable statue of the Virgin, is interrupted because Martha has a second task in Ireland: to fulfil a death-bed request to hand-deliver a mysterious roll of film,...
- 9/10/2015
- by Leah Richards
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Jimmy’S Hall Sony Pictures Classics Reviewed by: Harvey Karten for Shockya. Databased on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: B+ Director: Ken Loach Screenwriter: Paul Laverty Cast: Barry Ward, Francis Magee, Aileen Henry, Simone Kirby, Stella McGirl, Sorcha Fox, Martin Lucey, Mikel Murfi, Shane O’Brien Screened at: Sony, NYC, 4/9/15 Opens: July 1, 2015 Ken Loach, who directed “Jimmy’s Hall,” is no mushy liberal who would waste too much of his valuable time pushing for a 25-cent wage hike for McDonald’s workers—however important that may be to them. Loach is for the working class, but wants nothing less than radical change. Giving workers a few more crumbs from the king’s table does nothing [ Read More ]
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- 6/28/2015
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
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