John Dillinger: His lunch hour upon the stage

Chris McHallem’s cynically entertaining monologue about an actor who is not entirely sure he made the right career choice

Chris McHallem in Strutting and Fretting: An Actor Despairs, directed by Michael James Ford

Strutting and Fretting

By Chris McHallem

Bewley’s Café Theatre, Dublin

Runs until November 25

Rating: ****

‘Just because I’m bitter, that doesn’t mean I’m wrong,” says John Dillinger, the narrator of Chris McHallem’s cynically entertaining monologue about an actor who is not entirely sure he made the right career choice. After an hour in his company, you can fully see the poor man’s point. Strutting and Fretting: An Actor Despairs is a downbeat, ...