Edinburgh Festival 2001: If you're Irish, come into the kitchen Theatre MIDDEN TRAVERSE THEATRE

From: The Independent - London | Date: August 17, 2001| Author: Rhoda Koenig | Copyright information

"IT'S FUNNY how all our memories of childhood are actually memories of America," says a character in Midden. She and her friend and her sister have just, jokingly, struck up the theme tune of their favourite programme, Charlie's Angels, and assumed the famous position. This rather self-conscious observation suggests what is wrong with Morna Regan's first play. Watching it is like seeing one's memory unspool all the Irish kitchen-sink dramas of the past 20 years.

Midden examines the em...

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