Review 2017: Bleach

FESTIVAL REVIEW: Bleach Outhouse 105 Capel Street 9pm nightly and Saturday matinee 2.30pm.

Dan Ireland-Reeves is a talented young writer and actor and his current piece about a rent boy is a further step up in a promising career. Tyler Everett is the exotic name of a rent boy from a council estate so it’s no wonder he ended up in the sex industry.

The play is episodic and flashes forward and back with punchy one liners, prosaic descriptive packages and a fine physical presence. Tyler is morally in cold storage, without much blame and a survival instinct that is determined to keep going. He has charm, is fit and ricochets from caring to coldness as he is overwhelmed by the underside of the rent boy business. He is likeable and that is strongly portrayed to reel an audience in at the start but how could he … how could he do what he did?

This macabre drug fuelled tale teases, dismisses and feels like it’s on a ticking clock just like a rent boy’s session. The flashes of humour with a train spotting edge lift the solo show that never loses pace. Well worth seeing. GF

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