From the NYT's:
Larry (Mr. O’Kelly) is robbing a rural Irish convent of a Virgin Mary statue (memorably played by Ms. Fox) when he first encounters Sister Martha (also Ms. Fox). A teacher just back from Nigeria, she is transporting a roll of film that one of her students implored her to deliver to a man in Ireland.http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/theater/review-in-little-thing-big-thing-a-nun-a-criminal-and-a-social-conscience.html?referer=&_r=0
In something of a throwback, photos on film figure heavily in the plot, which has to do with an oil company’s rapacious ways and various hired thugs. When corporate bad guys show up at the convent in search of the film, Larry swoops in and saves Sister Martha. Off they drive.
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“Little Thing, Big Thing” seems, for a while, to be a bit of a shaggy-dog tale. Not so. A play about goodness, guilt and the willingness to get away with anything, it has an ending that will stop you short, right before it makes you think.
From the 59E59 web site:
LITTLE THING, BIG THING
By DONAL O'KELLY
Directed by JIM CULLETON
With SORCHA FOX and DONAL O'KELLY
The infamous Scarab Oil Company is looking to expand its operations
In Nigeria, a frightened child tells Sister Martha her dying father's request. "Take this old film roll and bring it to Henry Barr in Ireland. Trust no one."Back in Ireland, the film Martha is carrying attracts the urgent interests of some very powerful and dangerous people.
Meanwhile, "ex-con" Larry's plans to rob a convent are interrupted when he inadvertently joins Martha on the run. The ensuing chase thrusts them into the world of international oil skullduggery, awakening passions they thought were dead.
This darkly comic thriller from Fringe First winners Fishamble and Donal O'Kelly is "an enjoyable fast paced play that never lets you catch your breath." (No More Workhorse, Ireland)
"DIRECTOR JIM CULLETON'S ENJOYABLE PRODUCTION CAN EFFECTIVELY DO NO WRONG...O'KELLY FINNESSES THIS DECEPTIVELY BREEZY, CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED STORY WITH HIS SIGNATURE IMAGISTIC, ACTION-ORIENTED APPROACH TO LANGUAGE...FOX AND O'KELLY'S WINNING DOUBLE ACT...A LITTLE SUBVERSIVE, BUT THAT EFFECT CAN BE BIG ENOUGH."
-Irish Times ★★★★
"IMPECCABLE... IT HAS AN ENDING THAT WILL STOP YOU SHORT"-The New York Times
"LITTLE THING, BIG THING GRABS HOLD AT THE START AND NEVER LETS GO, A REAL TREAT!"-Talkin� Broadway"ENERGETIC, NONSTOP PERFORMANCES... DELIGHTFUL TO WATCH!"-TheaterMania
Supported by Culture Ireland.
Part of 1st Irish Festival.
