My overall impression
You enter the theater and standing on stage is a fiddler (violinist) playing the most nostalgic music and sent me way back to my childhood. The show is already winning. Then sat down you are transfixed with the lovely and charming set. Then it is announced that all the props and parts of the set are second hand and been custom mad for the show. The lights are yet to go up and already I’m impressed, the small details are always appreciated by me. The show itself is a very heartfelt story depicting the working class generation of the irish in the early 1900’s. The beautifully charming and engaging ‘Ellen Byrne’ takes us on a lovely journey played by the beautifully charming and engaging Bridget Campbell. It’s the only show I have seen thus far at this years fringe that I personally could close my eyes and just listen to the whole show and it would be just as lovely to just listen to. Like a piece of music. If anyone has any affiliations or connections to their Celtic roots then I insist you go and feel the nostalgia you would never feel otherwise being here in LA
