Town Hall Theatre, Galway: Is there anything you can't make a joke out of, however terrible? Most of what takes place in Micheál Ó Conghaile's translation of The Lonesome West is done with a whiff of bad taste, yet you can't help an involuntary laugh as the catalogue of catastrophe unfolds.

This intermittently entertaining coal-black comedy takes place in "the murder capital of Europe", where parents are killed for passing comment on hair-dos, where the entire girls' football team gets sent off for putting a goalkeeper in a coma and where the hoarding of plastic bags is still regarded as an eccentricity. Slapstick replaces morality as Veailín and Colmán Connor (Pádraic Ó Tuairisc and Tommy Ó Nia) battle it out in a sibling-fight to end all sibling-fights.

Though the language of the translation is richer than the original, it does not dispel the air of missed opportunity. Much of the acting in Páraic Breathnach's production is uneven and there is a tendency to ham up the more farcical scenes. Pádraic Ó Tuairisc is outstanding though as Veailín Connor, while Linda Bhreathnach makes an assured stage début as the hapless Girlín.

Micheál Ó Conghaile is a writer whose work always has the capacity to surprise. As with his previous translation of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, he has proved once again that he can reproduce the nuances and expressions of the Connemara Gaeltacht to great dramatic effect. How much longer then will it be before he takes the plunge and writes a play of his own? The Irish language drama scene would be all the richer for it.

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