ARCHIVED PERFORMANCE
Written by: Liam Heylin
Directed by: Donal Gallagher
Performed by: Shane Casey, Aidan O Hare and Ciaran Bermingham
Running Time: 70mins – no interval
This award-winning comedy traces the misadventures of two of Cork’s not-so finest criminals – a funny, honest and touching portrait of the human face of the underworld.
About “Love, Peace and Robbery”
GARRY:
“I’m thirty four, boy. Me young fella o’ fourteen don’t have to be home til twelve o’clock tonight an I’m in for ten??
Dare is someting sariously wrong wit da system dare like.”
DARREN:
“I’m twenty two an’ me dog is out later.”
Garry and Darren are already on curfew for a couple of dodgy jobs gone wrong. They’re determined to go straight. Sort of. But the young fella needs €360 for the school trip to Old Trafford on Saturday week and Darren knows a handy post office just a few miles outta town…
This award-winning comedy traces the misadventures of two of Cork’s not-so finest criminals – a funny, honest and touching portrait of the human face of the underworld.
Written by Cork Evening Echo court reporter Liam Heylin, Love Peace and Robbery is inspired by real-life interviews conducted with inmates of Cork Prison, struggling to break the cycle of petty crime and imprisonment.
Reviews:
“Heylin delivers a finely observed, funny and utterly convincing portrait of crime and its environs.”
The Irish Times
“…it is so well written that one can only sit riveted and quietly conclude that there may, after all, be honour among thieves.”
The Irish Examiner
“…confident, fluid and finely balanced, a strong piece of work.”
Irish Theatre Magazine