Dolmen Theatre brings acclaimed play ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ to Louth
The Louth theatre group returns to The Lumpers on November 24 and 25 with Mitch Albom’s moving and humorous story
Theatre makes a return to the Lumpers in Ballymackellet on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25 November when Dolmen theatre group presents "Tuesdays with Morrie "by Mitch Albom.
The true story of Morrie Schwartz is now a best selling book, was an Emmy award winning film, with Jack Lemmon playing his final role, and the play has been performed in major venues all over the world including Broadway, and the Westend.
Dolmen had a very successful run with this show in An Tain Theatre in 2018 and feel it's now due a revival. A spokesperson for the group stated "we've chosen the lumpers as we already had great nights recently with Agnes Of God and "An Evening with Wilde" - the intimate atmosphere of the Ballymackellet venue presents a perfect setting for this humorous, sad and intriguing play .
When "Morrie " was first present on Broadway it was universally acclaimed by the critics.
The New York Times concluded, "making the language of the book crisper cleverer and more palatable.,,,, aphoristic wisdom expressed with gallows wit"
The New York Magazine simply stated "unforgettable"
New York post critic wrote: "I was unprepared for how moving and powerful this turned out to be!
In Dolmens' production Morrie is played by Mat Murphy, Mitch is played by Sean Whelan and Janine is played by Jane Fee. Direction is by Gerry Roddy.
The play commences each night at 8pm and admission is available at the door.