Tuesdays With Morrie Ballymaloe Theatre, Co Cork
Mitch is a successful and driven sports journalist who sees a television feature about his old college sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who is dying. He pays a courtesy visit and is drawn in by the old man’s wisdom and humour; returning to visit every Tuesday. The play features the dialogue between these two men as Mitch’s machismo gradually dissolves under the old man’s influence.
It is not necessarily an easy play to stage. Morrie’s homespun wisdom and gentle, gallows humour occasionally wanders into Oprah style, self-help mode and the play treads an exceedingly treacherous path between enlightenment and mawkish sentimentality. He encouraged “the kids” to follow their dreams and spins out aphorisms such as ‘If you don’t like the culture you are in,
