Theatre Review
The most surprising thing about Bedtime Story by Sean O'Casey
is perhaps that it is only about 35 minutes long. Although director
Ian McKinney and his cast make these minutes quite funny and entertaining,
one cannot avoid a little disappointment about the lack of an ending
- which O'Casey simply does not provide. Ian McKinney does not present the audience with any experiments.
His is a straightforward production of this small comedy of character
- loud, fast and flat. James Roebuck plays the main character, John,
as the personification of pious self-pity, whose fate is well deserved.
More self-irony can be sensed in Claire Griffin's performance of Angela;
Robert Wells as Daniel remains a bit pale. A cheeping, bird-like weird
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