The Seafarer

See it if You are a fan of Irish plays & like family dramas with lots of alcohol, fighting, and futility, Just the usual plot. Matthew Broderick

Don't see it if Excessive drinking upsets you. You cannot understand an Irish brogue. Depressing stories cannot seem funny to you at times.

See it if you're a Conor McPherson fan & game for intimate staging and space and combative sibling dynamics—an intense tale of simmering resentments.

Don't see it if you're averse to tiny spaces, depictions of alcohol abuse, or unremitting verbal clashes, or sensitive to family-member-as-caregiver theme.

Also In retrospect, the cast does a fine job in conveying the aggressive, cloying intensity of unresolved resentments, especially between roles of siblings as caregiver/martyr and obliviously needy narcissist, respectively. There's an impressive choreography of sorts that this ensemble of five adeptly achieves! My own context is having also seen the 2007 Broadway production (and recalling Ciaran Hinds, David Morse, and Jim Norton in their well-cast portrayals). It's a tough, poignant, at-times depressing, but ultimately hopeful tale.... Read more Read less

See it if You love everything Irish

Don't see it if You dislike Irish bars with lots of drunken profanity and long periods when nothing happens except men yelling at one another.

See it if you love irish theatre and the IRT

Don't see it if you like uncomplicated predictable scripts

See it if Fine ensemble acting with an interesting story and characters. Well directed as usual at Irish Rep!

Don't see it if If Irish plays and serious characters do not interest you.

See it if Absorbing story Great characters portrayed by brilliant actors.

Don't see it if You cant relate to the next world.

See it if A look into human choices and the spiritual nature of togetherness vs aloneness. Old-town banter among life-long friends.

Don't see it if Some actors were pushing and yelling a bit too much.