The Irish Literary Times

THE premier of ‘Angela’s Ashes – The Musical’ in Limerick was always going to be a tough call. The Pulitzer winning book by Frank McCourt is brilliant and divisive on home territory. Questions asked by those riled centre around ‘was life really that poverty stricken here? Nah’ and ‘how could he write about his mother …

Think Angela’s Ashes and you generally don’t think of laugh out loud comedic gold and slapstick dance routines.

FRANK McCourt’s autobiographical account of growing up in Limerick has sold over ten million copies worldwide since it was released in 1996. The original musical version of this story was first seen in Limerick in 2013. That version was a student production from the University of Derby and forms the basis of the new musical …