Hints and tips:
...It’s the death of the then-infant Danny’s mother in a car accident that leads desperate widower Steve (Rory Keenan) to deceive his son with the pernicious idea that the world outside their door is a wasteland...
...Ceramicist Chris Keenan says that ultimately makers aim to “give the client an understanding of the processes related to the specific material”, which “helps manage expectations”. Rey agrees....
...Rory Keenan’s Manners begins by throwing his weight about, bullying the doorman, harassing his assistant (Joe Bannister) and manhandling the young ingénue, Judy (Emma Canning)....
...Rory Keenan’s performance really starts to bloom when he puts his own conscience into peril....
...Perhaps Shep (Rory Keenan) gave her everything; he lives on a canal boat, and says things like “Worms are 100 per cent core strength.”...
...Rory Keenan is excellent as the boozy son who knows his own jealous, loving heart, as is Matthew Beard as his delicate younger sibling staring death in the face....
...Meanwhile Rory Keenan gives a deft performance as a man realising why he might have forgotten who he was, supported by Trevor Laird as the wise butler who offers him an exit....
...Rory Keenan is a fine Liolà too....
...Paul Reid’s Public Gar is polite, diffident and much less resolute than his Private self, whom Rory Keenan voices with torrents of cynicism and, just when you least expect it, the occasional heartbreaking...
...There is fine support from Pauline Hutton as Mary, capturing her warring emotions of pain, love and contempt, and from Rory Keenan as Mark, who shows worrying signs of becoming another emotional drifter....
...Fred Ridgeway is nastily believable as an IRA hardman and Rory Keenan is enjoyable as the wisecracking fugitive. “I like being in the IRA,” he says....
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