Theatre Review: Big Maggie
Druid Theatre Company | Dir: Garry Hynes There were things I didn’t like about this play. Fairly minor things overall, and I feel churlish picking them out, so in the interests of maintaining a veneer of critical credibility, let’s just fire them out here and then we can get on with things. The tone, first of all, isn’t quite sure what to be… there’s serious drama, but it sits uneasily besides the borderline panto of later scenes. Accents are wont to go wandering in mid-sentence. The performances… well, the performances are solid, but Keith Duffy throwing himself around the stage crotch-first, like David Bowie in Labyrinth by way of Carry On, is almost more than a person can take of a Tuesday evening. There were things I didn’t like. But by the end, I was struggling to keep a hold of them, because more than anything else, this play is … There’s more
