Ireland's Own Carmel O'Reilly TONIGHT

If you can’t make it to the Emerald Isle for Saint Patrick’s Day then make room in your agenda for an evening with Ireland’s Own Carmel O’Reilly at Theatre Saint Catherine. Timely produced during Irish history month and a week prior to the celebration of all things green, this production is a Hoot and a Haller”. The play written by and starring Colleen Curran herself is cleverly directed and choreographed by Corey Castle and features Glen Roy as Carmels’s homebody brother and a cameo appearance by Janis Kirshner.

Carmel O’reilly, allegedly the illegitimate daughter of a famous US president of Irish decent, charms the lucky pants off her attentive audience. This is not a sit back listen and observe production, but rather an engaging and inviting event keeping the audience on their toes and their feet, literally.

If you aren’t of Irish decent you will be searching your family heritage tree to find any possible Druid roots after experiencing this play. If I had one complaint it was the venue; a cabaret setting would have been much more appropriate to the setting of the play.  I left craving a pint from a local pub, and wanting Carmel to tag along with a song and a sing along.

Playing at TSC 264 Ste-Catherine East to March 8th at 8pm and 2pm matinées 8th and 9th. 20$/17$ Res. 514 284-3939.