The Love Hungry Farmer – Assembly Rooms Ballroom
There is something slightly curious about watching a consummate storyteller who, for the first ten minutes or so, appears not quite to trust his own voice.
Seamus O’Rourke arrives in the vast 360-seat Ballroom at the Assembly Rooms with perhaps only 60 or 70 of us occupying its front quarter, and initially he is simply too loud. This is intimate storytelling and there is nobody sitting 50 metres away who needs to hear it. O’Rourke virtually shouts at us. For an actor of his experience, it feels oddly uncontrolled.
Thankfully, he settles.
The Love-Hungry Farmer, adapted by Des Keogh from John B. Keane’s Letters of a Love-Hungry Farmer, introduces us to John Bosco McLaine, a bachelor farmer living in glorious isolation in the south of Ireland. He has his farm, his home and ...