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Sep. 1st, 2008
Your Only Man
Sep. 1st, 2008 10:31 pmIf you have a spare hour and a half this week, and want your life greatly enriched, go to the BBC website for Radio 3, and pull up Listen Again on last Sunday's play, "Your Only Man".
Those with a knowledge of fine literature, especially fine Irish literature, will probably recognise the reference. This is a play about Brian O'Nolan. Or rather, Flann O'Brien. Or also rather, Myles naGopaleen.
Or truly rather, about all three. It treads a reasonably well-worn path, of the writer being dogged by his own pseudonyms, but since Flann/Myles's writing has such a delightfully surreal and twilit quality about it anyway, the device works perfectly.
There is a strong Irish cast - Ardal O'Hanlon, Dara O'Briain (who can act), Pauline McLynn, etc.
The play is funny, and sad, and strange, just like the writing of the man himself.
Really, listen to it, and read some Flann O'Brien.
( A light-hearted sample )
Those with a knowledge of fine literature, especially fine Irish literature, will probably recognise the reference. This is a play about Brian O'Nolan. Or rather, Flann O'Brien. Or also rather, Myles naGopaleen.
Or truly rather, about all three. It treads a reasonably well-worn path, of the writer being dogged by his own pseudonyms, but since Flann/Myles's writing has such a delightfully surreal and twilit quality about it anyway, the device works perfectly.
There is a strong Irish cast - Ardal O'Hanlon, Dara O'Briain (who can act), Pauline McLynn, etc.
The play is funny, and sad, and strange, just like the writing of the man himself.
Really, listen to it, and read some Flann O'Brien.
( A light-hearted sample )