http://consuminglouisville.com/2009/09/louisville-irish-festival-september-25-27-2009.php Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:17:09 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://consuminglouisville.com/2009/09/louisville-irish-festival-september-25-27-2009.php/comment-page-1#comment-1785 Cheryl Lewis Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:04:17 +0000 http://consuminglouisville.com/wp/2009/09/louisville-irish-festival-september-25-27-2009/#comment-1785 Being an Irish lass, I can't wait to go to the Festival today! But I wouldn't recommend seeing the play, "The Shaughraun". We left last night's performance at intermission (which by the way, didn't come until we were 90 minutes into it). The play is actually a "reading" -- the actors are reading the script out of binders, standing at music stands -- and there were no set changes like a real play. That wouldn't have been a deal-breaker, but we couldn't understand most of what was being said, either because of bad accents or poor projection on the part of the actors.(And we weren't the only ones who thought so.) If this was a comedy, we saw no evidence of it at last night's performance. Being an Irish lass, I can’t wait to go to the Festival today! But I wouldn’t recommend seeing the play, “The Shaughraun”. We left last night’s performance at intermission (which by the way, didn’t come until we were 90 minutes into it). The play is actually a “reading” — the actors are reading the script out of binders, standing at music stands — and there were no set changes like a real play. That wouldn’t have been a deal-breaker, but we couldn’t understand most of what was being said, either because of bad accents or poor projection on the part of the actors.(And we weren’t the only ones who thought so.) If this was a comedy, we saw no evidence of it at last night’s performance.

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