Night of Free-Flowing Verse, Booze and Elusive Connections on Dublin Bar Stools
Andy WebsterSeptember 9, 2014: The 1st Irish Theater Festival begins this season with Dylan Coburn Gray’s Boys and Girls at the 59E59 Theaters, a florid account of a night in Dublin. Ribald, lyrical and brisk (at 50 minutes), Boys and Girls, a Dublin Fringe Festival hit, renders in pungent language the contemporary adolescent and postadolescent experience in urban Ireland. Four young people — described in the script as A (Male), B (Male), C (Female) and D (Female) — lined up on stools, take turns standing to tell their stories. Three recount an evening seeking romance, or at least physical companionship, while one (D) recalls staying inside with her boyfriend. Their evenings, only some of which involve sex, do not overlap. However, the four do echo one another in sequence with drinks downed in their perambulations. (“Is this my sixth?” “Six.” “Six.” “Six.”)
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