first night review.(Theater Review)

From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: June 9, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: QUENTIN LETTS

THE SHAUGHRAUN

By Dion Boucicault Albery Theatre

HERE is a mad parody of a show, so full of winks and nods that it calls to mind those playlets Bruce Forsyth used to do with Generation Game contestants every Saturday on BBC1 during the 1970s.

Dion Boucicault was a 19th century impresario who produced melodramas.

He didn't just stage them. He put a rocket in their petticoats and sent them up - although perhaps seldom as high as happens in this astonishing production from Dublin's Abbey Theatre company.

The setting is County Sligo in ...

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