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'Jarred' on a cocktail of drink and drugs; TONIGHT.(News)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20071114
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Think of Dublin and theatre, and you might immediately think of the tradition of W B Yeats, J M Synge and Sean O'Casey.

Looked at from this side of the Irish sea there's a seductive mythical glow about it, but on the spot you suspect theatre is a much more down-to-earth, popular activity.

Gary Duggan's Monged, first staged at the Project Arts Centre in the Irish capital's trendy Temple Bar district in 2005, is about three young Dubliners getting off their faces on a cocktail of drink and drugs over a ...

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