Tir Na Theatre Company once again brings to Boston the best of new Irish writing - two one-act plays by Conor McDermottroe. First, his award-winning Edinburgh Fringe Festival one-man show, Swansong, which The Irishman calls "incredibly powerful," and his new play Bottom of the Lake.
Swansong, featuring Tim Ruddy, is set in 1960's Ireland and tells "the hilarious and heartbreaking story" (The Scotsman) of a boy struggling to manhood in a tough garrison town on the edge of the world. It is "a haunting picture of life on the margin." (The Sunday Independent)
Bottom of the Lake finds two friends in a small rowing boat on a lake on New Year's Eve - or is it New Year's Day? An hour is all that separates them, from not only another year, but also from a successful prize catch and the inevitable truth that, for one of them, is as elusive as the midnight hour.
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