Review: The Summer I Robbed a Bank
This is a wonderful, funny (and sometimes serious and sad) play based on David O'Doherty's book set in Achill Island writes *Haruki Ikeda-O'Donoghue 👍
Hello. I watched “The Summer I Robbed a Bank” and here is my review.
To start we meet Rex who has to go on holidays to Achill Island, where his uncle lives. There he meets new people, and it turns out they need money to build a retirement home, so they hatch a plan to rob the bank.
But, in Achill the bank is actually a van and if they want to rob the bank they will have to get past Pointy Pointy (she LOVES pointing).
It was very funny, cringey sometimes a bit serious. I especially liked the background work, so well done to all the people working in the theatre. Even though the set was very simple, they made it seem like it was so many things: a train, the sea, an island, a bank van, a shop, a bedroom, and a castle.
On stage, there are four amazing actors, some who had many roles, and others who had very hard roles. There were a big variety of roles. I especially liked Boom Boom and I thought Rex was very good at playing a 12-year-old boy who didn’t want to be in Achill but turned out to make loads of friends along the way, especially his new friend Kitty.
Rex’s Uncle Derm is probably the most caring and loving uncle and he tries to give Rex a great holiday in Achill.
If you are a Dad and you love Dad jokes then this is definitely the play for you.
Definitely suitable for all ages. Sometimes the actors do crazy unbelievable things such as when they tried to balance the bank van on two curraghs.
This play was really funny and emotional and sometimes I thought I would cry. And when the play ended I was in a very nice and happy mood.
I would give this play a brilliant 10 out of 10 and I would 100% recommend you go to see it. It’s only on for one more day so get your tickets.
So big bualadh bos to all the actors and people who helped make this play.
“The Summer I Robbed a Bank” finishes today Sunday, June 16 at 2pm. Tickets and information here.
*This is Haruki’s, 10, first review for Tripe + Drisheen (watch out Pádraig, our resident reviewer). Previously, Haruki wrote about his vision for Cork in T+D’s Our Cork 2040 series.
