Johnny Meister + The Stitch presented by Solas Nua at Flashpoint

Johnny Meister + The Stitch

Flashpoint
916 G St NW Washington

A hot summer’s day turns into hot summer’s night and two bad lads with an unspoken deed in their past spend their day trying to avoid each other. but it’s not easy. after all, at some point you have to show your face... featuring company member rex daugherty and chris dinolfo.

Presented by Solas Nua

Thru - Jul 17, 2010

Price: $20

Show Type: Comedy

Running Time: 1 hr 30 mins; one intermission

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Johnny Meister + The Stitch Reviews

Average Rating based on 4 reviews

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Washington Post - Recommended

"...The evening comes courtesy of Solas Nua, a Washington company that showcases contemporary Irish theater and other art forms. As it has with such writers as Enda Walsh ("Disco Pigs," "Bedbound") and Owen McCafferty ("Scenes From the Big Picture"), Solas Nua here presents further evidence of why, across the length of the island, Ireland is talent central these days for supple, literary conjurers for the stage."

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- Peter Marks

WeLoveDC - Highly Recommended

"...The trick to a play like this is to be able to weave the reality of pretty appalling events and themes with outright humor. Johnny Meister + The Stitch succeeds, shadow boxing between the squalor and the laughter. It’s a painful and beautiful duet worth entering that tricky black box environment for, to sit so close you can see them sweat and they can hear you breathe."

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- Jenn Larsen

Washington City Paper - Recommended

"...At Solas Nua, what’s appetizing is Rosemary Jenkinson’s ripe, anarchic language—a mad, stream-of-consciousness chronicle of a day in the life and death of Johnny Meister & the Stitch’s title characters—the precise, athletically explosive performance of Chris Dinolfo in the first of the evening’s twinned monologues, and the less hectic but equally fascinating portrait Rex Daugherty paints of Stitch in the second half. Pretty much everything about Des Kennedy’s tightly focused production is striking, really—even Marianne Meadows’ blinding, fluorescent-fueled lighting design."

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- Trey Graham

DCTheatreScene - Highly Recommended

Pulsing with snarling, furious energy, Solas Nua’s headlong production of Rosemary Jenkinson’s streetwise play Johnny Meister and The Stitch is not for the faint of heart. This down and dirty two-man drama whisks you away, uninvited, to the dangerous, impoverished back streets of Belfast, Northern Ireland where two angry young men square off for a final, inevitable smackdown.

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- Terry Ponick

Johnny Meister + The Stitch presented by Solas Nua at Flashpoint