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.
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 ...