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Author: Judy Murphy
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Arts Week with Judy Murphy
Bruiser Theatre Company from Belfast will be in Galway next Wednesday, May 31, with its production of Mojo Mickybo by Belfast playwright, Owen McCafferty, which is currently on tour.
Mojo Mickybo captures the friendship between two nine-year-old boys growing up in Belfast in 1970. Their relationship is initially immune to the sectarian violence taking place around them, but ultimately the conflict destroys it.
As children, despite coming from opposite sides of the divide, Mojo and Mickybo are as ‘thick as two small thieves’, playing headers, being mouthy, building huts, spitting from cinema balconies and re-enacting scenes from their favourite film, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They are young cowboys in the making, with the violence of The Troubles affecting them only from a distance – until their friendship is destroyed in a way they only come to understand later.
The play was first performed at Dublin’s Andrews Lane Studio, in October 1998 and went on to tour Ireland and Scotland in 1998 and 1999.
This production is presented in Bruiser’s trademark physical style, as the fast-paced, darkly funny and action-packed story is brought to life by actors John Travers and Conor Quinn, who seamlessly slip in and out of multiple roles and imaginary worlds.
Mojo Mickybo unsentimentally portrays how their childlike innocence is betrayed by communal hatred, showing the harsh stupidity of sectarianism, as the boys represent a country that has spent a century at war with itself.
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