Johnjo

Synopsis

Johnjo is the poignant study of a man from the cradle to the grave. Forced to go on the run from his Irish hill-farm home at an early age, Johnjo washes up in Lincolnshire in war-time England. Working on farms and finding himself treated worse than the prisoners-of-war, he goes on the run again. And so begins a lifelong association with ‘the lump’; the underbelly of the construction industry.

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Andrew Davie - 19 October 2008:

This three-handed production of “Johnjo” gives a new perspective to a play previously known as a one man show, and gives additional perspectives into the character of Johnjo McGrath. Johnjo is a melancholic figure looking over his life, not quite knowing who to blame for the hand that fate dealt him. Having witnessed as a boy the accidental death of his father, the accidental death decades later of his only friend lead Johnjo to the only conclusion he can reach. John Casey is convincing as a weary but hard-bitten man relating his life’s story, with Susan Cummins an equal opposite as his remembered mother in the first scene, and in a remarkable transformation, as his sounding board in the second. Music from Joe O’Donnell carries the tale from scene to scene and from thought to thought. The songs and music from Cummings and O’Donnell carry especial poignancy, with poise, engagement, and yes, before the show is done, some moments to lift the mood....

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