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What the media said about The Midnight Court at The Galway
Arts Festival
 Galway Observer
Brian Merriman’s, The Midnight Court (Cuirt an Mhean Oiche), must
surely be one of the most exuberant poems ever written in Irish or any
other European language. Celebrating the rights of women to wholesome sex
and wholesome marriage it remains as popular today as it did when it was
written in the late 18th century.- City Tribune
Anyone and everyone who has been to this show has left the theatre glowing
about the hour and a half’s entertainment — and rightly so.
This is a show that provided the best night’s enjoyment during
the Galway Arts Festival.
- Galway Advertiser
Apart from the theatrical aspects of the production, the music itself is
outstanding.
- Arts Festival Brochure
This is likely to be one of those shows, which becomes a tale of wonder
and a matter of legend ten years down the line.
- Galway Observer
An absolutely un-missable delight of music and comedy…if you have
to sell the children for the price of a ticket, go see The Midnight Court.
- The Irish Times
Merriman’s classic bristles with bawdy wit and Sean Tyrell's rich
musical settings were a continuing delight
- And from a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature
1995 Seamus Heaney (Link)
The poem was given a dramatic presentation with all the boast and blast-off
that song and music and topical allusion could provide. Hundreds of people
were shouting and taking sides like a football crowd as the old man and
the young woman battled it out.
- Ulster News Letter
A marvelous adaptation of Merriman’s bawdy classic about the war
between the sexes. Sean Tyrell’s exuberant score brilliantly fuses
elements of calypso, gospel, country’n’western, and much more
with a Trad core. A dramatically effective and hugely enjoyable stage-show.
Fusing elements of country’n’western, calypso and gospel, rhythm & blues
with traditional music and singing, this production, which bristles with
bawdy wit, is presented as an inventive and comic musical work is artistic
drama at its very best.
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