Drama at Inish: Good Performances Rescue this Drama at the OLT.
Drama At Inish is a trifle of a play which seeks to wrest a full evening’s entertainment out of a trifle of a situation. As such, it poses a challenge to anyone attempting it.
Lennox Robinson’s 81-year-old comedy has to do with an Irish seaside town and the impact on it of a travelling theatre troupe which has no intention of providing the kind of light summer entertainment to which it has become accustomed. Instead the townsfolk get a diet of gloom and doom — Ibsen, Chekhov, Strindberg — and their reaction to what they see on stage casts a pall over the community even as people continue flocking to the performances.