Featured Review
Dedalus Lounge
BOTTOM LINE: A smart, dark, and edgy holiday tale with three incredible performances, rock music, dancing, hooking up and deception. What more could you want?
Dedalus Lounge is a new play by Irish playwright, Gary Duggan, which had a successful run at the Dublin Fringe Festival several years ago and now is making its American debut, complete with a musical face lift by Anthony Rapp and Daniel A. Weiss. This darkly, charming tale takes place during the days before and after the holiday season in a small pub (Dedalus Lounge) in working-class Ireland where the lives of three long-time friends come to a boiling point surrounding the dramas of family and personal struggles as well as dealing with the issues of growing older and facing their ever evolving and complicated relationships. Danny (Anthony Rapp) is trying to get a Queen tribute band off the ground while his personal life is slowly crumbling apart around him; Delphine (Dee Roscioli) is involved in a high proļ¬le affair and the fact that her grandma is dying; and Daragh (James Kautz) is a mysterious drifter dealing with his own dark bag of tricks.
