Essentially a Farce, ‘Irishtown’ Seems a Bit Breathless Even for That Genre
While the fine actors sustain our attention, playwright Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s winking jokes and rapid-fire exchanges begin to seem repetitive at points, and Nicola Murphy Dubey’s sometimes overzealous direction doesn’t help.
Roughly a half hour into “Irishtown,” a new one-act comedy by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, a character named Constance, one of several actors in a Dublin-based theater company, muses, “I’ve just never been in an Irish play with a happy ending.”
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