Marvins Room

I attended an Irish Theatres Players production of Cupboard Love by Irish Playwright Bernard Duffy recently. This was staged at the Irish Club. It was a very funny script about two single sisters and their single brother who run the local draper's store. Although there were gales of laughter from the audience at the antics of the characters as they went about the business of getting their inheritance from their newly deceased Aunt in America, I was not amused. Director Bill Motherway chose to portray the two sisters as gross caricatures of women and as an Irish woman I would recommend that he visit Ireland and discover for himself that these characters only exist in Irish jokes, usually told by people who have never gone there. I was tempted to jump up on the stage and pull the glasses of the pair of them. After all, the glasses were sitting on the tips of their noses and were there purely to make them look ridiculous. The large poster advertising jumpers at $60.00 was very noticeable as every body knows we Irish use Punts as our form of currency. A glaring error on the stage designers part. The fleadh play is usually of a very high standard and sadly this year's offering was disappointing.