Rough Magic Theatre Company
presents the National Tour of
Improbable Frequency
A musical comedy by Arthur Riordan and Bell Helicopter
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“Fun, funny, intelligent, sophisticated… and very, very accomplished.”
Sunday Independent
***** “One of the wittiest, funniest, most enjoyable shows I have ever seen in Edinburgh.”
The Times
Rough Magic presents the hugely entertaining and successful musical comedy, Improbable Frequency. Winner of three Irish Times Theatre Awards including Best Production and Best Director, Improbable Frequency is a joyous surreal satire that lifts the lid on Ireland’s beloved neutrality and cuts to the heart of the tempestuous affair with its nearest neighbour – England!
Dublin, 1941: while war rages across Europe, Dublin revels in its prized neutrality as its theatres and bars remain open for business. A hotbed of intellectual and cultural high-living, the city is home to an excitable rabble of exiled intellectuals, British spies and Nazi sympathisers.
When a series of coded messages transmitted in the form of a radio programme draw the attention of MI5, a young code breaker is sent to investigate. His enquiries lead him into a series of improbable situations and encounters with the likes of John Betjeman, suspected of being a British spy, Erwin Schrodinger, taking advantage of the intellectual (and sexual!) freedom Dublin has to offer, and the surrealist Irish Times satirist Myles na gCoaleen.
Inspired by real events, Improbable Frequency brings these three historical figures together as elements in a surreal series of absurd plots to overthrow the British, undermine the Nationalists and subvert the forces of nature.
Director: Lynne Parker
Set Design: Alan Farquharson
Costume Design: Kathy Strachan
Lighting Desgin: Sinéad Mckenna
Sound Design: Bell Helicoper (Conor Kelly and Sam Park)
Musical Director: Cathal Synnott
Cast: Carrie Crowley, Sarah-Jane Drummey, Nick Grennell, Darragh Kelly, Louis Lovett and Arthur Riordan
National Tour 2007 Venues, Dates & Booking Information
Galway, Black Box Theatre 30 Oct – 3 Nov
Booking 091-569-777
Wexford, Dun Mhuire 5 - 6 Nov
Booking 053-912-3764
Tralee, Siamsa Tíre 8 - 10 Nov
Booking 066-712-3055
Cork, Opera House 13 -17 Nov
Booking 021-427-0022
Dún Laoghaire, Pavilion Theatre 19 -24 November
Booking: 01-231 2929
Letterkenny, An Grianán 26 -27 November
Booking: 074-91-20777
Ennis, Glór 29 Nov - 1 Dec
Booking:065-684-3103
Portlaise, Dunamaise 3 - 4 Dec
Booking: 057-866-3355
Longford, Back Stage 5-9 Dec
Booking: 043-47-888