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Stones in his Pockets

Tricycle Theatre, Inner London
From: Thursday, 15th December 2011
To: Saturday, 4 February 2012

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Synopsis

Jake and Charlie are two 'extras' on a movie blockbuster being filmed in Co Kerry. Is it just a bit of 'craic', a sniff of glamour, forty quid in your hand and then back to porridge, or will the effects be longer lasting? And how will they weather the storm that is brewing between the film-makers and the local community?

Our Review:

Theo Bosanquet - 21 December 2011

Soon-to-be artistic director of the Tricycle Indhu Rubasingham has been tasked by Marie Jones with getting back to the essence of her runaway hit, Stones in his Pockets.

Jones clearly feels that, somewhere amid the raves, awards and world tours that followed its 1999 London premiere at the same venue, something of the soul of the piece got lost.

Watching this moving revival, one can see what she means. Rubasingham has successfully unearthed a rather different play to the one we were previously sold. The programme image neatly sums up the shift – gone is the comedy cow, in its place we have a simple clapperboard in clover.

Jones' premise, that a rural Irish community gets turned on its head by the arrival of a Hollywood film crew, has been echoed in no end of television series and movies since – Notting Hill, Calendar Girls, Extras and My Week With Marilyn to name a few.

But although it may now seem...

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