Love/Hate star to feature in Galway festival play

Love/Hate star, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor who played Nidge in the RTE series has been cast in a Galway Arts Festival co-production play.

The electrifying Howie the Rookie, written and directed by Mark O’Rowe is a new production by Landmark Productions which will be staged during this year’s festival at An Taibhdhearc.

This play was first produced for the stage in 1999 when critics compared it to Chaucer, Joyce and Flann O’Brien.

This new production is reimagined as a one man play and directed by the playwright, Mark O’Rowe himself.

The Festival is excited about the production which will bring together one of Ireland’s leading playwrights with The Irish Times Best Actor in a TV series award winner, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor for his role as Nidge in Love/Hate.

After writing this play, O’Rowe went on to pen his first film, Intermission, which starred Colin Farrell and Cillian Murphy.

In Howie the Rookie, Howie tells a story, then Rookie takes it up. It’s a white-knuckle tale, a wild, urban odyssey through a nightmare landscape, hilarious and grotesque by turns.

In 2011, the Festival and Landmark Productions co-produced the internationally acclaimed Misterman directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy.

Tickets for this production, which opens in An Taibhdhearc on July 22 and runs for six nights, go on sale next Wednesday at www.galway
artsfestival.com