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Titus <TITUS_BRANDSMA>

	"Textured & elegant... approached with great energy by Sean McNally" IRISH THEATRE MAGAZINE ***	831 dni temu
	TITUS Carmelite Community Centre Mon 10 - Sat 15 Sep; 8:00pm The subject of Aidan Harney's tale is likely to intrigue: how one Dutch friar named Titus Brandsman, who visited White Friar Street in the 1930s, went on to rally against Nazism and protest in Dachau during the 1940s. A man influenced by Carmelite thought, the significance of the setting is not lost, although it remains unclear just how important, if at all, Titus’s trip to Dublin was on his subsequent actions. Harney distils a great deal of material into an hour and a half, mounting historical documents in the entrance hall; and his writing style is textured and elegant. The onerous task of playing Titus and a dozen or so other characters is approached with great energy by Sean McNally. Enthusiasm aside, the performance lacks a theatricality that is not helped by the living room-like space and poor direction. As if to liven things up, a number of images are projected onto the back wall, although they are both too high and too obscure to keep straining. Perhaps the play’s greatest difficulty is its dense textuality: there’s interesting stuff here that would probably be much more rewarding as a biography or as an extended piece of fiction. - Fintan Walsh
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