Theatre review: West for the Weekend

Granary Theatre, Cork

Liam Heylin’s latest play is about a Cork solicitor, Sully, who has a gambling problem. Atypically for a solicitor, he speaks in a working-class accent, and is a law unto himself.

This one-man show opens on a Friday afternoon, with Sully escaping from the office to head west for the weekend, ducking and diving from his ex-wife and daughter, his girlfriend and his mother. Sully has money worries. With the short-lived optimism of a gambler, he puts all his money on an accumulator bet with the bookies. Meanwhile, a substantial sum of money is missing from the client account of his employer.