Tom Vaughan-Lawlor's perfomrance in Mark O'Rowe's one act play 'Howie The Rookie' is sensational.
The play finished in Dublin's Project last evening. It will be in the Everyman in Cork on Tuesday and at the Galway Arts Festival from July 22.
In yesterday's Irish Times Fintan O'Toole writes: "Grotesquely vivid slasher-movie violence, animalistic sex, macho low-life swaggering, random psychopaths, and an underworld that could indeed be Dublin or Beirut or Chicago or Lagos - these were all parts of the package.
"Vaughan-Lawlor conveys a touching melancholy, a yearning for an impossible escape, that crucially shifts the balance between brutality and beauty in O'Rowe's writing."
Having watched the play one is forced to think of what it means to try to preach the Word of God in the context of the world portrayed by Mark O'Rowe.
Certainly anyone interested in trying to preach the Gospel has to be touched by 'Howie The Rookie'.
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor is a nephew of Paul Lawlor, an Irish Dominican working in Iran.
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