A rip-roaring rural comedy
TOMMY Marren, the writer and director of the play, It’s the Real McCoy, witnesses “the dismay and depression that is out there” as presenter of a current affairs radio programme on Midwest Radio. His play, “a rip-roaring comedy”, which opens at The Everyman on Jun 13, is an antidote to the misery of the recession.
Marren formed The Crokey Hill Players, an amateur drama group, in 2007, to provide theatre audiences in the West of Ireland with original Irish comedy. The group’s inaugural play, The Banshee of Crokey Hill, was scheduled to be performed for one night, in aid of Mayo Mental Health Services. It was a success, so the group was invited to tour the region. It has toured in the UK and the US and has won awards on the amateur drama circuit.
