Stagemad Theatre Company bring a startlingly beautiful version of "Howie The Rookie" by Mark O' Rowe to Cork Arts Theatre,Friday May 24TH@8pm. Mark O' O’Rowe’s hilarious, pimp-rollin’, blood-soaked text has Shakespeare’s interiority, Marlowe’s viciousness and a cowboy’s jangling gait.The play is a diptych that follows The Howie Lee (Kelly)He's a hooligan, good with his fists, bad with the ladies. Without preamble, he vaults into a story about crossing a field and spying a friend burning a mattress. Soon this friend draws him into an unlikely vendetta against the man, The Rookie Lee, who must have infested that mattress with scabies. Mark O Rowe's writing is lyrical and dirty and riotously imaginative.Listen closely and you will hear Joyce in the frequent neologisms — skullduggerous, popsock, dollyness. Hints of his contemporaries Martin McDonagh in the wild, almost farcical violence, and Conor McPherson in the stealthy emphasis on moral choice and responsibility. A night of pure,epic theatre is in store. Early booking advised.
“Fintan Kelly tames, controls and masters the stage as his own.
