Word: pato
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...character with great ease. Alternately imperious and juvenile, she resembles nothing so much as a rebellious teenager encountering a midlife crisis. Next to these harpies, the two supporting male characters appear as all sweetness and light. Derry Woodhouse milks his honeyed brogue for all its worth, making his character Pato an earnest, lovable womanizer. Matthew Ellis as Pato's brother Ray is less successful. Aside from a few outpourings of the perennially amusing Irish swear word "feck!", his dialect and his mannerisms fail to convey the sense of a bored and insolent Irish...
...woman stuck in a dismal job and still living with her mother in a tiny countryside shanty. Mag Folan is a crotchety 70 year old with a urinary infection and a nasty habit of emptying her bedpan in the dish sink. Maureen is offered a route of escape when Pato Dooley, a man of roughly the same age as Maureen, returns from London to visit his home in Leenane and invites Maureen to start a new life with him in America. With some foreshadowing and a few facile twists of plot, the play ends on an inevitably tragic note...