John B. Keane's The Matchmaker - Extra Week Added At The Gaiety Theatre
JC • Mar 22, 2016
JOHN B. KEANE’S THE MATCHMAKER
EXTRA WEEK JUST ADDED AT THE GAIETY THEATRE
Due to phenomenal demand The Matchmaker by John B. Keane has extended its run at The Gaiety Theatre for another week. An extra six performances have been added from Monday 18 to Saturday 23 April, 2016.
The show opens on Monday 11 April and will now run until Saturday 23 April. Tickets for all shows are on sale now. Tickets for the opening night on Monday 11th April are all priced €25 plus booking fee. Tickets for all other shows priced €25, €30 and €33.50 plus booking fee.
This follows on from the show’s hugely successful and critically acclaimed sell-out run at The Gaiety Theatre at the beginning of November 2015.
The production stars television favourite Mary McEvoy, known for her role as Biddy in the long running RTE TV series Glenroe. Irish actor and comedian Jon Kenny who was part of the Irish comic duo D’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt joins Mary to complete the cast. Kenny is best known outside Ireland for appearing in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted. Together they play a myriad of characters in this hilarious and earthy dramatic comedy. The play follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O’Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn.
Keane was an avid observer of people and the cultures that bind and create their view of the world. He uses “The Matchmaker” as an exploration of rural loneliness, aware that generations of people became masters of their own destinies late in life and only then begin to look for companionship and love once their duties as minder of ageing parents were concluded.
Using his inimitable way with words and his sense of “devilment” and wit, Keane delves into the longings, hungers, fears and foibles of this collection of lonely county people. He creates a marvellously colourful world taking us back to a simpler time when phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders.
“John B. Keane’s most hilarious play.’
RTE
“Mary McEvoy and Jon Kenny provide everything Keane could have desired.”
The Irish Times
“Hilarious and heart-warming…we were bowled over by the performance.” Irish Country Magazine
“A Classic…”
Sunday Business Post
“Keane uses the lyrical, colourful language of his part of the world the way a painter uses the palette”
New York Times
Tickets from €25 plus booking fee are on sale now
The Gaiety Theatre Box Office
South King Street, Dublin 2.
Tel: 0818 719388, 10 am – 7 pm / Mon – Sat
24hr Gaiety Theatre Booking Tel: 08 18 719 388
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