The Kingdom
From: Wednesday, 24th October 2012
To: Saturday, 17 November 2012
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Synopsis
Three Irishmen. Digging. Telling tales to put down the day. But as they dig down, long buried secrets begin to emerge and the story they tell is as dark as the earth itself. It's a tale full of rich and striking characters. The Kingdom vividly captures life as an Irish navvy in the last century - a time of immigration, violence, sex, triumph and, ultimately, tragedy
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 30 October 2012
Colin Teevan's new play is a rum do, a static and incantatory piece for three actors about Irish navvies, digging up roads and uncovering an Oedipal tragedy of incest, murder, blindness and redemption.
Something happened at the crossroads near Threemiletown involving Boss Carbery and a gang of thieves, a tinker's curse and a fella called Horse. And it came out of the wandering life of an old labourer, the mythical toil of the lost sons of Kerry and Donegal who have worked on the roads and the rails, the tunnels and pipes.
The evocation of a way of life, a community on the road, a quest for home, all that is very well done in Teevan's sharp and often brutish writing, but the drama has trouble wrestling itself free of the terse, third person verbiage. And the still presence of the disembodied actors doesn't help.
Against a pile of stones and grey rubble (design by Jessica Curtis), they stand immovable in their dirty clothes, picks at the ready for anyth...
Creative
Colin Teevan (Author)
Three Legged Theatre Company (Company)
Lucy Pitman-Wallace (Director)
Jess Curtis (Design)
Oliver Fenwick (Lighting)
Paul Dogson (Sound)
Simon Pittman (Choreographer)
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