Howie the Rookie
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 3, 2001
Closed Jan 27, 2001
Opened Jan 3, 2001
Closed Jan 27, 2001
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The UK-based Bush Theatre presents Howie the Rookie, a wickedly funny white-knuckle ride throught the dirty dives of Dublin. The intricate, overlapping tale unfolds first from "the Howie Lee" and then from "the Rookie Lee" (no relation). As these two thugish lotharios each relate lust, guilt, revenge, violence, and feuds of honor (involving a scabies-infested mattress and an accidentally trodden-on prize Siamese fighting-fish, respectively), their stories coalesce, until a surprise twist lands one man the tragic hero of the other man's story. This multi-award winning production is written by Mark O'Rowe, and directed by Mike Bradwell.
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Short staccato bursts of language, spoken in a thick Irish accent, become poetry in the New York premiere of Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie. Consisting of two successive, first-person, stream-of-consciousness monologues, the play follows the (mis)adventures of two working class lads from Dublin. Everything from taking a piss to describing a bloody fight is here imbued with a rhythmic lyricism.
Comparisons to the work of fellow Irish playwrights Conor McPherson and Martin McDonagh are inevitable. O'Rowe shares with McPherson a love of the monologue, but his darkly comic humor is closer to that of McDonagh. This production, directed by Mike Bradwell, originally premiered at the Bush The[...]