Howie the Rookie: In brief Tom Vaughan-Lawlor plays both roles in a reconceived version of writer-director Mark O’Rowe’s brutal Dublin drama, which first rocked New…
Harsh Tongues, Marinated in Whiskey ‘Howie the Rookie,’ in BAM’s Next Wave Festival Of arms and the man, they sing. Well, men. And also scabies,…
The 1990s in theatre meant more than “in-yer-face” plays. At the same time as British drama was growing graphic and biological, a crop of Irish…
Howie Lee and Rookie Lee – no relation – share a surname and a city, Dublin. In Mark O’Rowe’s revival of his own cult classic,…
Mark O’Rowe has smoothly transformed a two-hander into a one-man show and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, who plays both Howie and the Rookie, revels in its ripe…
Read four-star rave review by Peter Crawley in The Irish Times here. “Mark O’Rowe transforms his two-hander monologue play into an epic one-man performance for Tom…
Read five-Star review by Lucy White in the Metro Herald here. “Electrifying performance… blistering script” “… this production underscores O’Rowe’s and Vaughan-Lawlor’s status as Ireland’s most exciting…
Read five-star review by Brendan O’Rourke in Entertainment.ie here. “The one man show – a daunting prospect for both audience and actor alike. A sole figure must…
Read Emer O’Kelly’s review in the Sunday Independent here. “It’s acting of extraordinary quality. Mark O’Rowe directs, with equally devastating restraint.”
Four-star review by Nadine O’Regan in the Sunday Business Post Magazine. “A masterclass in acting…a performance of astounding and exhilarating verve and skill.” “entrancing and…