Tilers give in to temptation

Four workmen turn to thievery in Prime Cut’s production of Owen McCafferty’s Shoot the Crow, Colette Sheridan reports

SHOOT the Crow, a touring play about the working man and male relationships, opens at the Everyman Palace Theatre on April 2. Shoot the Crow was written by Owen McCafferty and first produced by Druid 15 years ago. This new production is by the Belfast-based Prime Cut theatre company.

Shoot the Crow is a homage to the ordinary man and centres on a day in the life of four tilers at work in a new apartment development. Tied to low-paid jobs from which escape seems impossible, the men realise there is an unaccounted for pallet of luxury tiles which they can steal and sell off.