Stones In His Pockets, Marie Jones’s Irish comedy with a tragedy forewarned in its title, returns to York for the first time in four years on Wednesday for a 7.30pm performance at the Grand Opera House.
When a Hollywood film studio descends on a quiet County Kerry village in southern Ireland, the demand to be a £40-a-day extra is huge. Among those lining up for the movie shoot are local lad Jake Quinn, newly returned from a dispiriting fortune-seeking sojourn in New York, and the outwardly happy Charlie Conlon, now trying his hand at script-writing after his video shop in Ballycastle went belly up.
These are but two characters played by a cast of two, Simon Delaney and Hugh Lee, who share 15 roles in Jones’s heart-warming but darkening tale where Hollywood myth, glamour and ego rub up against Irish hope and reality.
Tickets for this West End hit cost £17.50 or £15 on 0844 847 2322 or online at grandoperahouseyork.org.uk
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