The 8th

See it if You love well written and well acted family dramas

Don't see it if You are bothered by thick Irish accents

Also Clancy and Nightingale are absolutely perfection as mother and daughter. This is only the fifth play I have seen this year and I’m confident this will be in my top 10 plays for 2020.
There is an anything average about this play everything is excellent or perfection.
I’m usually bothered when an actor has to sit on stage before a play starts. There better be a really good reason to have that actor out there before the show starts and this is a perfect example of when it works.
It doesn’t matter if you’re Irish or not you will see yourself and all of your family members in all of these well written characters.
My friends couldn’t believe I was going to Queens to see a play, I would go see this if it was on the moon!... Read more Read less

See it if you want a very good family drama displaying generational differences of a family in Ireland.

Don't see it if You want a fast-paced story. The script could be trimmed to speed up the action and the two +1s felt unnecessary.

See it if You are interested in Irish plays that focus on church and family and the issues of suicide and abortion within that context.

Don't see it if You do not want to see family dynamics and conflict during the lead up to the 8th amendment vote in 2018.

See it if you'd like a family drama, on 1st anniversary of the dad's suicide & the eve of Ireland's repeal of its 8th amendment banning abortion.

Don't see it if You dislike controversy about abortion, suicide or family escapism when things don't go well, or when siblings & parents don't get along.

Also Given the stellar cast, I expected better. The timing was off, the script needed cuts, & this play was just mediocre.

Yet I liked playwright Seanie Sugrue's dedication to his grandmother Mary "Molly" Sugrue: "an incredible woman born in Kerry in 1913 who in her final years helped raise my brother & me. If she was alive today we would agree on very little politically and that would be quiet [sic] alright."

I'm glad to have visited Long Island City's Secret Theater for the first time, in celebration of the 12th annual 1st Irish Festival. I will undoubtedly visit this little theater again.... Read more Read less

See it if Pleasantly surprised and the 3rd time to this little theater. If you like Irish songs/ballads and Irish plays this is very envy.

Don't see it if If you don’t like Irish plays/songs or small theater spaces.

See it if Topical and yet history

Don't see it if Don’t like Irish stories

See it if You like independent theater, Irish themes, great acting, incredible writing and a thought provoking story.

Don't see it if You are sensitive to difficult topics, such as abortion or suicide.