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Pandora Play Productions presents

Elysium Nevada & Lost City

Two plays by Barry McKinley
Fri 28th Jan 8pm
€16/€14
Elysium Nevada and The Lost City, Jan 28th Riverbank Arts Centre
Elysium Nevada and The Lost City, Jan 28th Riverbank Arts Centre
Elysium Nevada and The Lost City, Jan 28th Riverbank Arts Centre
…. full of brilliant barbs and humour...the performances are uniformly excellent...a hugely enjoyable and thought provoking production. Sarah Keating, Sunday Business Post
….a study in wizened impotent rage, measured out in wicked one-liners...it would be tempting to call the whole thing Beckett meets Shepard.. Peter Crawley, Irish Times.
….the playing is assured and beautifully timed ... and has a nice balance of cynical humour and genuine emotion.’ Michael Moffatt, Mail on Sunday

Pandora present two plays by Carlow playwright Barry McKinley

ELYSIUM NEVADA, nominated as best new play in Irish Times 2010 Theatre Awards, is set in a retirement home not far from Los Vegas. Two grumpy old men sit and gaze at the desert as they reflect on their lives and times. Their dialogue is salty and richly comic, reminiscent of The Odd Couple 40 years on. With the awakening of a mysterious woman nearby, surprising new truths are revealed giving a poignant insight into their lives and a fascinating conclusion.
 
LOST CITY is an intriguing piece by the same author. Hiram, a reclusive middle-aged Irishman fantasizes in his work-shed about being an explorer in the South American jungle, searching for and finding the lost city of the Incas, while he simultaneously plans a special revenge on his violent father who has dominated and damaged his life.
 

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