Musical review: The Commitments, BGE Theatre, Dublin

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Sat, 15 Oct, 2016 - 01:00

Ed Power

Alan Parker’s 1991 adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s The Commitments is one of the great dividing moments in modern Irish popular culture.

To some it was a confident evocation of contemporary Ireland, capturing both the despair and the devil may care irrepressibility of the pre-Celtic Tiger era.

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