Rank

Synopsis

In the harsh world of grifting, gambling and getting by, two taxi-drivers face the toughest choice of their lives. One wrong turn of the cards and this time there’s no way back. A darkly comic thriller, where loyalty, trust and friendship are just more chips to be thrown on the table. Take a trip through the grim, seething and sometimes hilarious criminal world of the north Dublin suburbs.

Our Review:

6 November 2008

The rank is a taxi rank at Dublin airport where a bunch of losers and small time criminals fiddle their days away in between not doing very much. Playwright Robert Massey’s father has been driving Dublin taxis for thirty years, so I hope none of his colleagues feel vaguely libelled.

They’re more likely to object to how gormless they come across in Jim Culleton’s slow-moving production for new Irish writers’ company Fishamble, who premiered the play at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival. It’s way off the pace of a David Mamet heist drama like American Buffalo, or August Wilson’s Jitney which also looked at life in the car hire business.

There are five characters; three of them taxi drivers, all of them in hock to Bryan Murray’s casino-owning small-time crook Jackie Farrell. Farrell’s masterminded an armed robbery that has gone badly wrong and wants George (Eamonn Hunt...

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susan - 6 November 2008:

hilarious,saw thisi n dublin....

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