Howie the Rookie

Presented by BAM and Irish Arts Center (Dec 10-14), this one-man remounting of Mark O’Rowe’s critically acclaimed Howie the Rookie comes to BAM courtesy of Ireland’s Landmark Productions. O’Rowe reconceived his original two-man play for a single performer to portray both the Howie and the Rookie after searching for an actor to match the award-winning Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s ability (Best Actor, Irish Times Theatre Awards 2013). Originally staged in New York in 2001 at PS 122, this brutal but funny script follows a revenge-fueled run-in on the violent streets of working-class Dublin. The New York Times called O’Rowe’s drama, “…one of those rare, shiver-making instances in which language seems to become truly physical.”