Love à la Mode: Larger-than-life farce takes plenty of stylistic liberties

Certainly a crowd-pleaser and likely to be most effective with a big audience, so get along to Smock Alley and fill the place up.

Colm Lennon and Caitlin Scott in Love à la Mode at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin

Love à la Mode

By Charles Macklin; adapted by Felicity Productions

Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin

Rating:****

Runs until June 16

‘Mackie, Mackie, Mackie, can’t you see? Sometimes your words just hypnotise me,” the cast of Love à la Mode by Charles Macklin rap to a Notorious BIG hip-hop beat shortly before the interval. “I just love your flashy plays, that’s why they’re still performed today.”

As this musical interlude suggests, Felicity Productions’ adaptation ...