Season 32 Play 5 – The Patrick Pearse Motel by Hugh Leonard
Directed by
Cast
Grainne Gibbon – Diana Gaunt
Fintan Kinnore – Gordon Sugden
Niamh Kinnore – Pat Walker
James Usheen – Brian Baines
Miss Manning – Wendy Coombes
Hoolihan – Jack H. Whitaker
Synopsis
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Directors Notes
The Patrick Pearse Motel, by Irish Playwright Hugh Leonard, is a modern comedy. Constructed in the best farcical tradition of Feydeau, it is much more than an exercise in the mechanics of farce.
Set in Foxrock, an affluent suburb of Dublin, the author has given us an extremely funny play, and yet, at the same time; it is quite obviously making caustic comment on some of Iréland’s parvenus.
The plot is tightly detailed. the dialogue deft and witty with words quite obviously chosen with care and great skill. During rehearsal any straying from the original text proved disastrous. It showed just how tightly the play is written, and the use of one particular expletive is neither gratuitous nor sensationalist. It produces exactly what the author intended – a devastatingly comic effect.
In total the play is an adult comedy of many facets, so should you be suffering from the anticlimax of Christmas and New Year – or just for an evenings entertainment –
‘WE HOPE YOUR VISIT TO OUR MOTEL HAS BEEN AN ENJOYABLE ONE.’
WE ALSO APOLOGISE THAT BECAUSE OF STAFF SHORTAGE, BREAKFAST CANNOT BE SERVED IN THE BEDROOMS.
