Anyone expecting Marie Jones's ingenious two-hander about a Hollywood film crew descending on a rural Irish village to be a full-on knockabout romp is in for a surprise.
Anyone expecting Marie Jones's ingenious two-hander about a Hollywood film crew descending on a rural Irish village to be a full-on knockabout romp is in for a surprise.
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Neil cooper
So adept is Jones at the theatrical and comedic double-bluff that what starts out as a sit-com-style yarn about a couple of film extras on the make becomes both an elegy for a dying community and an artistic call to arms against a form of colonialism that denigrates the culture it feeds off.
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