The Irish Curse
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Opened Mar 28, 2010
Closed May 30, 2010
Opened Mar 28, 2010
Closed May 30, 2010
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
In Martin Casella's The Irish Curse size matters to a small group of Irish-American men who meet every Wednesday night, in the basement hall of a Catholic church, at a self-help group for men with small penises (it is allegedly an Irish trait to be under-endowed). When a twenty-something blue-collar guy joins the group, he challenges everything the other men thought about "the Irish curse"...tackling their obsession with body image and unmasking the comical and truthful questions of identity, masculinity, relationships, social status, sex and the ever important "do I measure up to the next guy?"
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
Leave the wives at home
Men should go to see this play with their mates and leave their wives at home. I don?t think women can relate as easily. The first half of this one act play is funny while the second is dramatic. The writer is stretching an old-wives-tale pretty far to create a metaphor for men who feel they come up short in some way. If you can?t relate to the stated reason for the men to feel cursed I found it helps to insert a short-coming of one?s own: lack of career status, lack of income, lack of muscles, stature, charm, education. To paraphrase a question asked by one of the men, ?Will any woman love me once she finds out that I don?t measure up?.
One annoying part of the show was Dan Butler ranting around the stage about George Bush, Obama, Clinton, and Republicans. I am sick of playwrights inserting their political views in the wrong forums or espousing views just to get a cheap laugh from a liberal, New York audience.
Reviewed by bbraat
on Tuesday, Apr 13th, 2010
Prepare to laugh
Attended the show on April 11. Dan Butler was off, the understudy on. The theater was full and shook with laughter for 90 minutes. The acting was largely first rate, particularly Roderick Hill in a central role. You dont have to be Irish to have a good time at this male analog of the Vagina Monologues a borrowed characterization.
Reviewed by toreadorables
on Monday, Apr 12th, 2010
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The walls are robin-egg blue and a little on the dingy side. The ground-level windows are inexpensive stained glass. Where else could we be but the basement of a church somewhere in America? Be warned though. The language coming from this particular house of worship, the setting of Martin Casella's sitcom-like The Irish Curse, now at the SoHo Playhouse, is not your standard-issue potluck supper repartee.
Indeed, this Brooklyn church provides a home for a Catholic support group for men who suffer from physical inadequacy issues. They're all Irish or Irish-American -- the phrase "The Irish Curse" apparently refers to a stereotypical belief that the genitalia of many Irish men don't quite me[...]