OnTheTown: Armchair republicans quoting the poetry of Padraig Pearse while injecting morphine stolen from the British military during the Easter Rising - it doesn't get more irreverent than this, and who else would come up with it but the brilliant comic talent of Bedrock Productions?
Opening night was a very new experience for comedian Des Bishop, who co-wrote Shooting Gallery with Arthur Riordan, of Improbable Frequency fame.
"I've never written something and not been in it before," Bishop said. "It's much easier to gauge the audience reaction when you are up on stage and much more difficult when you are in the audience."
Performance artist Amanda Coogan, wife of director Jimmy Fay, said her husband was feeling "fabulously nervous". Coogan is on her way to New York next week for a live performance in Soho's Galleria Illy.
Among those who came to the production's opening night in Andrews Lane Theatre were Abbey director Fiach Mac Conghail, director of the Arts Council Mary Cloake and Project director Willie White.
Also there was Aideen Howard, currently director of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, who will be moving to her new post as literary director of the Abbey Theatre in January. Fresh from dropping off a grant application at the Arts Council, she said she was a "huge fan" of Bedrock and enjoyed the "very lively" show.
Actor Alan Smyth, who is on his way to New York with Gúna Nua for its production of Mark O'Rowe's Crestfall, was there, as was Ruth Negga, girlfriend of actor Tadhg Murphy (who plays Sean in Shooting Gallery). Negga will be in a new production of Titus Andronicus with Murphy at the Project in December. Karl Shiels, from Semper Fi, whose Adrenalin was the highest-selling show in any Dublin Fringe Festival, also attended.
Shooting Gallery will run at Andrews Lane Theatre until Sat, Oct 29