O’Carroll gets course
November 8, 2007
We all know Brendan O’Carroll as Mrs Brown the Irish widow with a dysfunctional family and 2008 see the launch of his forth play in the Mrs Browns trilogy (his words)!
But his first play, ‘The Course’, was a huge success, running for 18 months at Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre, before touring to London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Toronto and finishing up in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin for another two months. Finally it arrives in Newcastle where O’Carroll has built up a large fan base due to Mrs. Brown.
The play involves an assorted group of no hopers who sign on for a Positive Mental Attitude course run by a conman but then the bona fide American supervisor arrives, threatening to shut down the course unless five out of six participants pass the test. The participants including a prostitute, a resting actor and a golf widow rise to the challenge, with unexpected results.
This comedy promises high farce and a feel good ending and is playing at the Journal Tyne Theatre until November 10th.
O’Carroll returns in the new year to the same venue with his eagerly awaited new Mrs Brown comedy
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