"The Rare Oul' Times"

Ken McElroy's two-man play sympathetically potrays the literary brilliance of Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh, their humour, their music and also their sadness. It explores their different background's, the streetwise Behan from the tough tenements of North Dublin - Kavanagh the farmer's son from the impoverished County Monaghan, childhoods that honed their respective talents as playwrights and poets.

This play allows Behan to be at his most outrageous and Kavanagh to be at his most vitriolic. And as in life the pint of stout is an essential prop on stage for both characters.