Sinead Wallace uses a single source for her front light and I don’t like it. There. I said it- you’ll just have to deal with it. Funnily enough, ‘dealing with it’ is just what Bedrock Producions’ Wedding Day at the Cro-magnons’ is all about.
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Bedrock Productions is to stage the Irish premiere of Lebanese-born playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s explosive and comic exploration of war-torn life; Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons’ – you might say it’s a bit of a crazy play.
While it could easily be suggested that the familiar tale of Romeo and Juliet has been done to death, Jason Byrne clearly begs to differ as he brings the play into its first ever full length production at the Abbey. His difference of opinion however, does not appear to stem from the same old platitudes that we continually hear about Shakespeare’s most famous play, such as love is timeless, their love is eternal and so it never goes out of fashion. Rather his fascination with the play emerges from his assertion that there are elements of the play that have been ignored or forgotten, that have been lost in its familiarisation.
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