Papatango presents
Leopoldville

The Winner of the Papatango New Wrtitng Competition

7th - 24th April
8:00pm
Tickets: £12
Previews (7th April): £5

Papatango Passport: £30
(See all 4 shows for £30. Offer only available over the phone: 020 7240 6283)

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Written by Jacqueline McCarrick
Directed by George Turvey

Cast
Prentice - Richard Hawley
Devlin - Jack Ashton
Mikey - Russell Simpson
Gascoigne - Joe Sims

‘Everywhere is Leopoldville. Everywhere’

This year’s winning entry, Leopoldville is a dark Irish play set in 1990, at the tail-end of the last recession. Leopoldville is about a gang of young men who rob a pub in a border town. Damaged lives are revealed and friendships are tested as their crime spirals horrifically out of control.

Reviews for Leopoldville

" Leopoldville is a dark, taut thriller "

Remote Goat (Read the full review here)

"Impossible to shake off, the effects of this show plaster themselves on its audience and serves Papatango well as a showcase of the talent imbued in their productions."

Spoonfed (Read the full review here)

Reviews for Jacqueline McCarrick

Reviews for The Mushroom Pickers:

"All the familiar ingredients are here: rustic eccentricity, colloquial lyricism, the Troubles. Yet fine performances and a subtle handling of the shades of morality lift this above the ordinary."
Kieron Quirke, Evening Standard

"A powerful play"
Nina Steiger, Soho Theatre

Clare Allfree, Metro Newspaper

"In my experience at least, the Irish have an endearing and infectious sense of fun, and an almost unrivalled relish for good times. And Jacqueline McCarrick's award-winning play 'The Mushroom Pickers' seems to support my view. But in spite of the humour and banter that permeates this play, there's an undercurrent of tension and fear reflecting the life-wrecking 'troubles' which have dominated the socio-political scene in Ireland for more years than any of us would prefer to remember"
Londontheatre.co.uk