The American Premiere of Love, Peace & Robbery goes to Off-Broadway!

In September, Keegan Theatre’s New Island Project will take its production of Liam Heylin’s play, Love, Peace & Robbery, for a week run at 5959 in New York City as part of the first New York Irish Theatre Festival. The production will run from September 23rd through September 28th and will star Eric Lucas and Matthew Keenan.  Kerry Waters Lucas directs.

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What critics in Ireland are saying about Love, Peace & Robbery:

The Irish Times:
Liam Heylin knows his subject intimately and resists the temptation to over-moralise and caricature. His writing is all the better for it, and with Love, Peace & Robbery, Heylin delivers a finely observed, funny and utterly convincing portrait of crime and its environs…

The Irish Theatre Review:
His characters – small-time criminals – are delicately formed portraits of chaotic, violent, but not necessarily vicious personalities, struggling to walk along the straight and narrow. Heylin treats them with wry compassion, although he remains carefully unsentimental, and the beauty of this little drama is that we end up rooting for the duo even as we are asked to unflinchingly confront the reality of their behaviour.

The Irish Examiner:
If the language is profane at times, it is so well written that one can only sit riveted and quietly conclude that there may, after all, be honour among thieves.