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The Mariettas
An entertaining night of 1960s nostalgia featuring the talents of five young Dublin women playing a number of different
parts. The play features a stark black stage with the characters dressed in their blue 1960s minidress stage outfits
throughout. Each performer plays a number of parts from nurses to teachers to biscuit factory workers. All come together
in the form of the Marietta Showband. Particularly funny are the girls neandertal male characterisations of the two bands
employed to play for the showband.The fast paced nature of the play carries the audience along through the trials and
tribulations of trying to break out of 1960s conservative Ireland where life for women was restrictive and inhibiting. All the
women in their own way make it to their individual nirvanas. All in some way escape. This play requires no heavy
interpretation, it is not pretentious intellectual theatre but it is the perfect escapist entertainment for the recessionary
Ireland of the 21st century. One small criticism, all that is needed to make this the perfect nostalgic play, an added piece
of 1969 realism would be to cut a few more inches off those 1969 minidress outfits.
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