by Liam Heylin
directed by Kerry Waters Lucas
NOVEMBER 28-DECEMBER 21, 2008
at Theatre on the Run
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sunday matinees at 3:00 pm
SPECIAL ADDED PERFORMANCE:
Saturday, December 20 at 3:00 pm
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Originally premiered at the Meridian Theatre in Cork, Ireland, in September 2007, Heylin’s hysterical and moving 90-minute play examines the lives of Gary and Darren, two ex-cons straight out of Cork Prison. Trying to go straight, trying to stay clean, living with a curfew on a probation scheme, they stumble through the obstacles of getting back into everyday life. But then, there’s always one more heist….
Featuring Eric Lucas, Matthew Keenan, and Bruce Rauscher
Directed by Kerry Waters Lucas
* American premiere!
* 2008 participant in NYC’s 1st Irish Theatre Festival (off-Broadway)
“…sensitive direction by Kerry Waters Lucas, and three terrific actors … an engrossing 90-minute tour of the seamier side of the city of
Cork ”
-Backstage (NYC)
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REVIEW (NYC): Backstage (9/24/08)
REVIEW (NYC): Potomac Stages (9/26/08)
ARTICLE: Sun Gazette (9/29/08)
What critics in Ireland said 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.
