Live Theatre Workshop's production of 'Stones in his Pockets' is about economic hardship, despair, and, finally, hope.
The play, currently on stage at Live Theatre Workshop, will make you laugh. At times really hard. But then it hits you: this isn’t really a comedy.
Charlie and Jake are extras in the blockbuster being filmed in their rural Irish village. The extras are exploited and dismissed, tossed aside like bits of trash. But the economy is bad and the work is needed, so people sign on. But the pacing of the Rhonda Hallquist-directed piece meant that a play that should have been fast and smooth became clunky.
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