Go back to The Rare Oul Times

The Old Courthouse is playing host to the smash hit Nomadic Theatre Company play, The Rare Oul Times, on April 30 at 7.30 pm.

This promises to be a memorable night of blarney and song that will send the audience away with a tear in the eye, a smile on the lips and a song in the heart.

The action takes place in John Ryan’s famous Bailey Pub in Duke Street, Dublin.

The audience are on-lookers as two of Ireland’s most outrageous and notorious drinkers and literary figures, Brendan Behan and Patrick Kavanagh, discuss their successes, failures and love lives to date in 1950s Dublin.

The energetic and pacey dialogue highlights the complexities of both men – their fiery temperaments, their love of the written and spoken word and their frustrated longings for recognition.

Emphasising their different backgrounds, the audience comes face to face with the streetwise Behan from the Dublin tenements and Kavanagh, the impoverished Monaghan farmer, upbringings that informed their talents as playwright and poet.

Tickets cost £8/£6 concession and are available from the Box Office on 028 9446 3113 or online at www.antrim.gov.uk/boxoffice

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