DONEGAL playwright Ultan Pringle will open his much acclaimed five-star review show, ‘Boyfriends’ in Letterkenny next week.
Ultan Pringle will bring his play to his home county following critically acclaimed reviews of it when it was staged in Dublin.
The play opens in An Grianán, Letterkenny from Thursday, July 11 as part of Earagail Arts Festival 2024.
Written by Donegal writer and actor, Ultan Pringle and directed by the rising star in theatre-making, Joy Nesbitt, hailed as one to watch in 2024 by The Irish Times. The play is a two hander with Emmanuel Okoye (Disenchanted (2022), The Dry (RTE, 2022) and Ultan Pringle (Falling For The Life of Alex Whelan (2023), who play two unnamed characters, as they take a big look at their very new relationship and what a modern day romance might become.
Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends, charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern ‘situation-ship’. As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, through time, sex, vintage disco, nightclubs, period dramas and calorie counting, Boyfriends asks us to ponder on that age old question: what is romance anyway?
While all the while being a story of two men who by chance meet in The George Nightclub Dublin, foster a dog, ghost each other and ultimately end up grappling with what it means to actually be ‘sorta kinda’ maybe in a very intimate proper relationship with one another, Boyfriends also seeks to explore modern love, grief, existentialism and the heart breaking joy of really getting to know someone.
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