The Muesli Belt, Theatre Banshee at The Banshee

Byron Turk, ©2012 Theatre Banshee

The Muesli Belt by Jimmy Murphy.

Dany Margolies – ArtsInLA.com

This U.S. premiere of an Irish import is a gentle little script that probably would speak to Dubliners of the late 1990s. But playwright Jimmy Murphy offers not much to Angelenos of the new millennium, who would be thrilled with increasingly large offers to purchase any property we might be lucky enough to own. In addition, the play’s structure feels anticlimactic before we even notice a climax. But it provides an armature on which to hang human behavior, and director Sean Branney makes certain the five characters spark and sparkle. Read more…