THE DRY HOUSE

Marylebone Theatre



April 2023


Written and Directed by Eugene O'Hare

Designer: Niall McKeever  

Lighting Designer: Robbie Butler

Sound Designer: Esther Kehinde Ajayi


★★★★ WHATS ON STAGE

'There is excellent work from designer Niall McKeever, who sets the action in a meticulously bleak living room filled with piles of laundry, empty bottles and other debris. It’s a dreary environment that has long grown stale from a lack of air and light where Chrissy has trapped herself and where no human being can hope to thrive. Claire scolds her that drink won’t get her anywhere when in fact she wants to be desensitised and have no obligation to engage with the outside world'

★★★ LONDONTHEATRE 1

★★★★★ MY THEATRE MATES

'Niall McKeever’s appropriately grim, fully realised set and Robbie Butler’s deceptively ingenious lighting design are further elements to savour in a virtually flawless piece of theatre'

★★★★★ THEATRE NEWS

'The first thing that stands out of Eugene O’Hare’s powerful play, The Dry House, is the set, what appears to be a standard sitting room suggests a familiar normalcy, however, for all the recognisable sitcom setting the case is much more suburban relapse. The environs are a Samuel Beckett-like capsule that contains a multitude of emotions and entanglements a visible interior/exterior prison, mental and physical barriers to ‘going on … because you must’'

★★★★★ THEATRE REVIEWS DESIGN

'The set is to die for, everywhere you look is detail that reflects the character’s emotional state, with a brilliant combination of high quality build mixed in with personal neglect'

★★★★1/2 LONDON THEATRE REVIEWS

★★★★ WESTENDBESTFRIEND 

★★★★ REVIEWSGATE

 THEREVIEWSHUB

'Niall McKeever’s letter-box style set, thick with the muck and the detritus of a failed life, is excellent.'




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