The Red Kettle Theatre Company and playwright Brian Foster would appear to have a significant potential box-office success on their hands. Paul Brennan's production for Red Kettle of Brian Foster's second play to be staged drew much laughter from a capacity audience fully enjoying itself.

And why would it not? It has two blisteringly funny performances - from Anna Manahan as the priest's committed housekeeper Tilly Ryan in a richly rural parish, and from John Hewitt as the devious Father Sean Collins, emissary of the Archbishop, bent on removing the God-loving Parish Priest (Father D'Arcy, played amiably by Des Manahan) from a parish he has served for over 40 years so that his Archbishop can win promotion to the College of Cardinals.

The problem in the parish is that 14-year-old Kathleen Tourish (Sarah-Jane Drummey, suffused with open innocence) has proclaimed that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her. Her stressed mother Joanne (a sprightly and persuasive Mary McEvoy) seems not to be too enamoured of her daughter's revelation, and young computer-hip Father Brendan Rock (nicely observed by Michael Hayes), placed by the ambitious Fr Collins in the Parochial House as a kind of Christmas mole, is as unsure about his vocation as about his unwanted mission in Ballymore.

It is a potent mixture for both sentiment and comedy, as it poses moral dilemmas for the clergy and their flock, and it treats the local authority of the Church with scant regard. Moggie Douglas provides a marvellously cluttered setting in Jim Daly's excellent lighting and Mona Manahan's costumes add subtly to the general sense of fun.

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